Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] come first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 84-year-old actor came first in a survey which asked Americans : ‘ If you wanted to buy something , who would you want to sell it ? ’ |
| 2 | The outermost limits came first — the sky , with a pale shine of overcast through the bare branches of the trees . |
| 3 | Scottish TV came first , launched on the enthusiasm of Roy Thomson , who had difficulty con-vincing Scottish backers that ITV had a bright future . |
| 4 | In this book , spiritual , mental and emotional well-being come first in this section on health and beauty , because caring for the needs of the inner person is not only of primary importance in itself but is also a great step towards achieving physical well-being . |
| 5 | The individual organism came first in the biologist 's consciousness , while the replicators — now known as genes — were seen as part of the machinery used by individual organisms . |
| 6 | It was still widely agreed that , as laid down in the papal ranking of 1504 , the Holy Roman Emperor came first of all secular rulers , and this pre-eminence all emperors jealously guarded : it was only after considerable resistance that Ferdinand III ( 1637 – 57 ) agreed to address Louis XIV as " Majesté Royale " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These cases come first on the court 's calendar . |
| 9 | The hard men came first , then the softly spoken and sympathetic type . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 12 | Also , the philosophy underlying the NHS 's information strategy is that clinical information comes first . |
| 13 | It is unique in that juniors come first , are welcomed at all times in and out of the club house , on and off of the courts and will never be turned off the courts by seniors . |
| 14 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 15 | Taureg had done well and had received her just and sincere due , but this was tot time , and on board the depot ship Omega , first things came first . |
| 16 | In this country Irish files come first , and every time I 'm into an Irish case I find myself cursing just about everything American , got me ? |
| 17 | Ground capacity at the club is to be cut to under 19,000 while rebuilding work goes ahead and chairman Sir John Hall said : ‘ Our own supporters come first . ’ |
| 18 | The main conclusion about education and employment was that purely educational aims came first : schools should not prepare pupils for particular types of employment ; industry itself benefited from the teaching and learning of basic educational skills . |
| 19 | In such cases TRACE tends to prefer parses in which the longer word comes first . |
| 20 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 21 | However , my decision to back the new development came first . |
| 22 | But when it really mattered , other priorities came first . |
| 23 | In February 1868 Lewis came first in the London examination for entry to the Army Medical School in Netley , and did equally well in the course . |
| 24 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 25 | This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions . |
| 26 | Win or loose , both horses came first with the crowds at Cheltenham today . |
| 27 | A full turnout of altar servers assisted , young children brought up gifts and their drawing at the offertory , all the Special Ministers came first to receive Holy Communion , and after Mass people gathered to greet the Bishop and share wine and refreshments in the parish house . |
| 28 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |