Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 2 | For convenience we shall compare the systems under four main headings , with indirect taxes considered first in each case . |
| 3 | For those who are dissatisfied with housework , a statement of this feeling is problematic because the break between socially acceptable behaviour and individual experience has first to be made . |
| 4 | G. agrees that the offender has probably escaped prosecution because of his violent and aggressive demeanour which made G. think first of his personal safety . |
| 5 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 6 | Basingstoke scored first from a penalty and further penalty exchanges brought the score to 6–6 . |
| 7 | The taximan drove first to Old Street , where there was a garage open all night for the trade , and bought a tankful of petrol . |
| 8 | The appellant Wright came first in December 1990 and kept returning . |
| 9 | He might be drunk and bursting with frustration but words came first with him . |
| 10 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 11 | A detailed analysis of those authors publishing first in the Scottish Journal of Geology shows the following distribution of universities : |
| 12 | Violence flared first in Helston , where an angry crowd of about a thousand gathered as William Body , a Commissioner charged with destroying every relic of popery , was desecrating the Church . |
| 13 | Similarly , Violet Markham served first on a school management committee and later as a member of Chesterfield LEA . |
| 14 | Motionless on his stool , Frankie stared first at Buddie 's dark profile , then at the huge brown and black body curled in the corner . |
| 15 | She stood up , ready to inform Nicole that her pressing appointments would leave her very little time here , when her eyes widened first in surprise , then in horror . |
| 16 | Despite his outer appearance and his bizarre equestrian habits , he was a highly respected practitioner residing first at St James 's and then in Mount Street , off Berkeley Square . |
| 17 | A more educated , literate , and rational society weakens their effect ; contraceptive knowledge and practice spreads first in the more educated classes , then to poorer people . |
| 18 | Blufton respired deeply , his eyes glued first to the superintendent 's face and then Dexter 's . |
| 19 | Here all disputes have first to be considered by the engineer who is the employer 's agent : the engineer 's function is to administer the contract and issue certificates and decisions in response to claims by the contractor for payment and claims of all kinds , such as claims for extensions of time in which to complete the works . |
| 20 | This is the position even with the special machinery under the ICE and FIDIC contracts , where disputes have first to be referred to the engineer . |
| 21 | In other words , what Pooh infers first from Rabbit 's saying ‘ Yes ’ is that Rabbit believes there 's honey . |
| 22 | Progress depends first of all on acquiring a better understanding of users and of information-seeking behaviour through user-oriented qualitative research . |
| 23 | In 1955 London theatre saw Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , a play composed first in French and later in English by a detribalised Irishman living in Paris , and theatrical minimalism was suddenly the rage . |
| 24 | ‘ German unity depends first of all on the German people … and France will not be against it . |
| 25 | Following Hudson 's death in 1712 , the mill passed first to his son and later , to other members of the family . |
| 26 | It is believed that these blotched tabbies arose first in Britain , in the Elizabethan era . |
| 27 | The move took place in two stages with the north London sites relocating first in 1982 and the Kent-based operation transferring to Stevenage in the summer of 1983 . |
| 28 | When a plant starts to freeze , ice accumulates first in interstitial water , leaf veins and other extra-cellular spaces . |
| 29 | This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage . |
| 30 | The Council met first on 11 November 1215 , following mass celebrated by the pope at dawn with only the cardinals , archbishops and bishops present . |