Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a first " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 2 | If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on . |
| 3 | Chelsea looked worthy of at least a point after Mick Harford 's 72nd minute goal had cancelled out a first half Saunders header . |
| 4 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 5 | POST Office workers put up a first class performance blasting round Britain 's fastest motor racing circuits in a Royal Mail delivery van . |
| 6 | Erm I myself came out a first floor window erm a lot of a lot of entrances had already been blocked by the tanks |
| 7 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 8 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 9 | The Marines brought in a first , small load of 30 bags of rice and grain to offer the local people as a gesture . |
| 10 | ‘ The Three Holy Kings — March ’ strides out a first with gallant confidence , but very soon the left hand accompaniments grow even more daring and complex in harmony . |
| 11 | We seem to see here a first concept of temple-decoration , the guardian symbols , beginning to give hesitant way to the idea which was to prevail : the devotion of temple-gables to narrative scenes from myth and legend . |
| 12 | More than anything else it has changed the public lifestyle of Catholicism for the ordinary churchgoer so that it is hard for the young actually to realize that thirty years ago Mass said wholly in Latin , including even a first reading of Epistle and Gospel , was simply taken for granted by most people . |
| 13 | Hence in the Budget of 1907 he took only a first step towards graduation by introducing into the tax system different rates of tax for earned and unearned income . |
| 14 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 15 | Conrad Allen put in a first appearance on the track in the 600 metres at Crawley . |
| 16 | It 's like the school big boy who 's beaten up a first year and |
| 17 | An area stretching from Oxford Street to Euston Station was sealed off and bomb squad officers carried out a first controlled explosion at 10.10pm . |
| 18 | expressing your hope that these convictions signal the determination of the Guatemalan government not to tolerate any further human rights abuses , no matter who the perpetrators , and that they represent merely a first step in a concentrated programme of government action intended to return Guatemala to the rule of law ; |
| 19 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 20 | In future it may be possible to bring out a first novel in paperback , and then once an author is established we could bring out his or her second and third novels in hardback . |
| 21 | This is the most valuable way of working out a first scene and happens in Ronzeo and Juliet . |
| 22 | ‘ I could mention several local lines that have n't a first to equal it . |