Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 2 | ‘ German unity depends first of all on the German people … and France will not be against it . |
| 3 | This water goes first to generate hydro-electric power and then to irrigate the land . |
| 4 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 5 | This book deals first with the present system , shows its limitations and how to get the best value out of a professional inspection/survey . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | UK civil service holds first joint environmental meeting |
| 8 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 9 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 10 | However , every Halls-run concert has first to surmount the hurdle of gaining sponsorship or underwriting . |
| 11 | This can be represented by a quasi-chemical process where the formation of a solvent-polymer contact requires first the breaking of ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts , and can be expressed as an interchange energy AΔΕ 12 per contact , given by |
| 12 | Environmental Audit Completes First Phase |
| 13 | New gallery of Egyptian art holds first exhibition with an unpublished head of Tutankhamun |
| 14 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 15 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 16 | Also , the philosophy underlying the NHS 's information strategy is that clinical information comes first . |
| 17 | The central core of this tendon takes the highest strain and in a typical speed injury , the inner core breaks first leaving a classic black hole effect in the centre of the tendon , seen on ultrasonic scans of the damaged leg . |
| 18 | The Malthusian debate is concerned with the way in which , through the centuries , economic growth has first induced and then restrained population growth . |
| 19 | In such cases TRACE tends to prefer parses in which the longer word comes first . |
| 20 | but you 're not fair to your own family which is even your own family gets first priority |
| 21 | The young teacher speaks first . |
| 22 | Stabbed policewoman takes first steps |
| 23 | By ‘ best ’ results here it is meant that the correct word occurs first or near the top of the ordered list of allowable strings . |
| 24 | Make up each of the two kite ends first , then use a screwdriver , tent peg or skewer or similar stake to hold the extreme ends positively to the park ground . |
| 25 | Before human beings ( or any other animal ) can make use of the energy from the Sun , that energy has first to be turned into chemical energy ( that is , into complex organic molecules ) by photosynthesis . |
| 26 | This lovely melody follows first one pattern , then another , without establishing a precise thematic design . |
| 27 | The third test appears first in Lord Pearce 's judgment but is most clearly stated by Lord Wilberforce : No exhaustive test can be stated — probably no precise non-exhaustive test . |
| 28 | The picture at the top of the next column shows First Vice President , , his wife , and ( Divisional Chairman ) and National President and his wife . |
| 29 | Others drove to work before 7.30am or scheduled business calls first thing so that they could drive in later . |
| 30 | The true speculator acts first and adjusts later . |