Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 2 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 4 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 5 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 6 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 7 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 8 | For only the first time , now , did she comprehend the nature of the stone from which the fortress had been constructed . |
| 9 | Dr Mumby was found guilty of only the first and last charges , for which he was admonished . |
| 10 | Many of the cases which have from time to time been relied on in support of the High Trees doctrine are clearly examples of only the first principle . |
| 11 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 12 | All that remains of probably the first country house in England to be modelled on a Palladian villa . |
| 13 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 14 | Different approaches to the organization of knowledge may emphasize the relative importance of either the first or second objective , but it is difficult to neglect one without impairing the effectiveness of the other . |
| 15 | Lack of rigorous endoscopic criteria defining variceal haemorrhage such as those described by Buset et al , lack of standardisation for the time of entry , non-uniform management of the variceal haemorrhage during the whole study period , analysis of either the first or the recurrent episodes of haemorrhage and differences in patient sampling or variables recorded may all have a part in explaining the contradictions among some of the studies published on this matter . |
| 16 | Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from . |
| 17 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 18 | The strong smell of damp and cats gave a quick explanation of why the first two floors of the building were uninhabited . |
| 19 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |
| 20 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 21 | For probably the first time since 1967 , homosexuality was at the forefront of public debate , resulting in moments of real visibility and intervention . |
| 22 | Since the 1949 service , when Latin was heard in the Church for probably the first time since the Reformation , the Founder 's Psalm ( no. 130 ) has been chanted : |
| 23 | Groupe Axime SA , France 's third-largest software and systems integration house , reported net profit equivalent to $2.9m for the first half of its 1992-93 fiscal year to December 31 , compared with net losses for both the first half and the full year 1991-92 . |
| 24 | The default for both the first number and the step size is 10 . |
| 25 | Dressed alike in dark suits , the female Cholmondeleys , and male Featherstonehaughs are integrated with completely unisex choreography for both the first and last sections of the evening 's journey into alchemy . |
| 26 | It is a compromise between all three , with perhaps the first least apparent and the third most in evidence . |
| 27 | Arie could be simple , tuneful canzonette , ‘ little short songs ’ , as Morley defined them , ‘ wherein little art can be showed , being made in strains … and every strain repeated except the middle ; ‘ Caccini 's aria VIII , ‘ Odi , Euterpe ’ is a canzonetta with only the first ‘ strain' repeated . |
| 28 | There was improvement in all Commercial lines when compared with both the first and the final quarters of 1992 . |
| 29 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 30 | The spread of the TNCs has brought significant changes to the sexual division of labour in both the First and the Third World . |