Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After looking at first reactions I shall sketch the main lines of theological comment and response , and then liturgical , practical and ecumenical developments ; then some ‘ growing points ’ and problems in areas both of praxis and of theological reflection . |
| 2 | Service is deemed to have taken place seven days after posting by first class post if this method of service is used . |
| 3 | A writ can still be served on a limited company by sending it by first class post to the registered office , but following the Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Service of Documents : First and Second Class Mail ) ( 1985 ) 8 March [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 489 the presumption will be of service on the second working day after posting by first class post or the fourth working day after posting by second class post . |
| 4 | After graduating with first class honours , Barber obtained a PhD in 1927 under Prof Samuel Smiles , FRS , for work on cyclic disulphides derived from diphenyl . |
| 5 | And The Name Book has provided a happy half hour of browsing through first names . |
| 6 | It was held that the defendant was guilty , since in raising their hands the members of the audience were engaging in competitive bidding — namely in competing against one another for the chance of getting in first by raising a hand before anyone else or for the chance of attracting the defendant 's favour in selecting the lucky buyer . |
| 7 | And there was n't a lot of getting in first before the newsworthy |
| 8 | GRANT FARQUHARSON , Gary Armstong 's deputy at Jed-Forest , has joined Gala so that he can be more certain of playing in First Division rugby . |
| 9 | Those you would feel unhappy about attempting without first having received advice and instruction . |
| 10 | with regard to first instance proceedings , the unassisted party would otherwise suffer severe financial hardship . |
| 11 | It is an aspect of metaphysics , which is the study of what we are justified in believing from first principles . |
| 12 | In Pakistan , agreement has been reached on the sales and pricing for Kadanwari gas and development in proceeding with first production scheduled for 1995 . |
| 13 | She did a lot of work in sitting at first , gaining the feeling of balancing onto her left side , and she was taught how to move her spine more normally . |
| 14 | Yet , as he revealed in one of his later outbursts , he did take Jewish pupils , perhaps without realising at first that they were so . |
| 15 | Jespersen , for instance , is of the opinion that although " to had at first its ordinary prepositional meaning of direction … the meaning of the preposition has been weakened and in some cases totally extinguished " ( 1927 : 10 ) . |
| 16 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |
| 17 | Ideally , it is a major feature of this type of product , and one for which the advertised brand is actually superior : but it could be some general characteristic which , by getting in first and appropriating it to itself , the brand can make its own . |
| 18 | His verbal rockets would doubtless already be primed , but she must defuse them by getting in first and establishing that the woman he faced today was a woman of determination , a woman prepared to fight , a woman who would be a fearsome opponent in any battle . |
| 19 | What do you mean by get in first ? |
| 20 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |