Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] first " in BNC.

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1 The Church of England at first remained uninterested , even hostile .
2 The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 .
3 The appointment of ENs over first level nurses is a matter for local interpretation by nurse managers , for which there are really no obvious hard and fast rules .
4 Excursions : sightseeing tours of Budapest during first weekend , one-day excursion organized py Pegazus Tours on request , 2 day weekend trips — riding tours , tours to the Danube Bend , to Lake Balaton , etc. on request , and one long weekend tour of the Hungarian countryside on request .
5 I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz on first seeing Munchkinland — the scene when the screen changed from sepia to glorious Technicolor and Judy Garland spoke that immortal line , ‘ You know , Toto , I do n't believe we 're in Kansas any more . ’
6 But some Oxfordshire aid workers who 've seen the horrors of Bosnia at first hand feel the airlift is wrong
7 So collector 's corner , Brian Simpson of Hinckley on first what it is you want ?
8 He asked the Queen to appoint an Archbishop of York without first asking the Archbishop of Canterbury .
9 In 1343 Archbishop Zouche of York at first resisted the king 's nominee for the deanery of York because Cardinal Talleyrand had already been papally provided ; when the king 's judges found against him , Zouche acquiesced in the royal candidate , rejected the cardinal and endured papal excommunication for the last four years of his life .
10 All three of them were armed ; I mean armed , with revolvers , with cartridge belts over their shoulder and carbines , which looked like Springfields at first .
11 Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock .
12 He fell in love with Anne at first sight .
13 She 'd fallen in love with Antonio at first sight , but did n't trust his fidelity as a future husband .
14 Did you discuss this with Silvio without first discussing it with me ? ’
15 For Travis , it appeared , had fallen in love with Rosemary at first sight .
16 April 1 , 1989 Implementation of UN independence plan begins ; South African troops clash with SWAPO guerrillas crossing from Angola on first day of ceasefire [ see pp. 36576-77 ] .
17 The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health .
18 Workers are unworried by the erosion of W÷P resulting from increases in P , but they will strenuously resist the same erosion of W÷P resulting from reductions in W. At first blush this would appear to be yet another manifestation of the irrational phenomenon of money illusion affecting the supply of labour .
19 Clarke got his second goal in the 60th minute when he met a well directed right-wing cross from Wallace to first time the ball past Maguire to secure both points for the visitors .
20 Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning .
21 The private placing was handled for Delrina by First Marathon Securities Ltd , Marleau , Lemire Securities Inc , and Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd .
22 India reached 31 without loss by the close , both Srikkanth and Sidhu making 13 , but the latter was lucky to survive a chance to Taylor at first slip off the first ball he faced .
23 KALAMAZOO GOES TO NETHERLANDS FOR FIRST ACQUISITION ON THE CONTINENT
24 AXE CONTRACTS WORTH $30m TO ERICSSON IN FIRST QUARTER
25 You 're too scared about changing gear so you go all the way from here to Glasgow in first .
26 I was drawn to Laurie at first meeting , when the local Co-operative Party nominated him as candidate for the 1959 general election .
27 In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season .
28 ‘ We are to leave for Nottingham at first light . ’
29 The Torridon Mountain Rescue Team took Mr Nicholls to the Scottish Natural Heritage field centre at Kinclochewe for first aid and a hot bath .
30 If John Major signed the proposed treaty at Maastricht without first securing substantial concessions , Robertson intends to go on the warpath with a national campaign to reverse the decision .
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