Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 3 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 4 | The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it . |
| 5 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 6 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 7 | I shall consider only the first of these here , since theory has no independent insular life , and in an order only partly chronological . |
| 8 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 9 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 10 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 11 | To begin with , consider the subset unc comprising those polynomials ( i.e. sequences ) whose every term , excepting possibly the first , is zero . |
| 12 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 13 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 14 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 15 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 16 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 17 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 18 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 19 | Once your kit is sorted out the first hour is generally spent getting used to the skis , sidestepping up the slope and sliding straight down . |
| 20 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 21 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 22 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 23 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 24 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 25 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 26 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 27 | After the therapist has introduced him/herself , explaining something about their profession , and the actual referral process , they might continue by explaining how the first session will proceed . |
| 28 | No I do n't know where the first one is . |
| 29 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
| 30 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |