Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's up Jackie , ’ Yanto shouted as the first boy jumped the fence into the pub yard . |
| 3 | Parents usually notice that biting starts as the first teeth begin to emerge . |
| 4 | Boeing said that no planes would be built until the first firm orders were placed by customers , signalling the start of a bitter fight with the Airbus consortium for orders . |
| 5 | Faulty learning occurs because the first instances of it were inappropriately reinforced by the parents or other caretakers of the child . |
| 6 | ‘ I keep the subject constantly before me , and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light . ’ |
| 7 | Tears streamed down her face ; they had done since the first sound of his voice . |
| 8 | He reports , for example , exactly what the committee has done since the first report was published . |
| 9 | Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf. |
| 10 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 11 | ‘ Fifty Years Ago ’ on page 19 reports the joy that was felt when the first three African bishops of modern times were appointed . |
| 12 | Such arrangements may also be adopted as a first tentative step towards full merger ; ( 2 ) where the aim is to pool resources with a view to lowering overhead costs and achieving administrative savings . |
| 13 | A settlement at Witham in Somerset may have been disturbed when the first Carthusian house in England was founded in the late twelfth century in the apparently empty Selwood Forest . |
| 14 | As such it is seen as the first part of a larger work , to be completed by sequel works of a similar kind but which will be separately specified and will be covered by separate agreements in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down in Clause 14.1 . |
| 15 | As Fig. 2 shows , the lower the median age at first marriage in a country , the more time elapses until the first birth occurs . |
| 16 | She would stay until the first intermission , then leave him to watch the last complete performance alone . |
| 17 | One or two events which will be of more than a passing interest to Lothian Highways ' staff have occurred since the first edition of NETWORK was published . |
| 18 | But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it . |
| 19 | Compare the bank 's tenacity at taking away allowances with its reluctance to give salary increases when the first sign of adversity appears . |
| 20 | We meet as the first polls are coming in , but Hicks is rightly confident of a Clinton landslide . |
| 21 | To administer the second dose , succuss the original bottle and repeat the process , so that the second dose is a little more succussed and diluted than the first . |
| 22 | The two numbers should not be compared because the first refers to words which have the same word boundaries , and the second refers to words in the same region . |
| 23 | Feed weekly , beginning after the first flowers have set fruit . |
| 24 | Tim Flowers in the Southampton goal had n't much to do before the first Leeds goal was scored . |
| 25 | In 1956 , shortly after AEA 's formation , a major civil milestone was reached when the first commercial reactors in the world were inaugurated at Calder Hall . |
| 26 | The Battle of the Atlantic began when the first ship was sunk within 12 hours of the declaration of war in 1939 . |
| 27 | I did n't know what to do when the first letter came . |
| 28 | They investigated the rate of autoshaped pecking controlled by the first of two keylights presented serially and were able to show that the rate was elevated when the first element was an inaccurate predictor of its consequences . |
| 29 | The hapless Jeff Nuttall — whose cartoon strip had been running since the first issue-also felt the lash . |
| 30 | Some editors decide whether the first set of comments have been met and send for fresh reports only for major revisions , whereas others seem to obtain fresh referees ' reports routinely . |