Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triumph did develop the Stag a little , but not enough to make the last of the series significantly better than the first . |
| 2 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 3 | Our group of five to 12-year-olds pronounced the film ‘ brilliant ’ and ‘ even better than the first ’ . |
| 4 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 5 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 6 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 7 | At a recent PBAA conference , the policy was laid down that the first Public Television Licence in any given area should be community-controlled and that access be provided for educational and special interest groups . |
| 8 | When its petrol tank exploded a few minutes later , the flames from the blazing car , the house and the cainca lit the dawn sky more brilliantly than the first rays of the rising sun . |
| 9 | These orders may vary slightly from teacher to teacher , so that the first order , for example , might be think of not stiffening the neck … . |
| 10 | She let off a salvo of three guns , spaced so that the first ball fell well in front of the Genoese ship . |
| 11 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 12 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 13 | The nice embalmer who wrote to me told me , greatly to his credit , of the totally unnecessary embalming that is frequently carried out , so that the first the next-of-kin knows about it is when he or she receives the bill . |
| 14 | Because of injuries and unavailability , Chelmsford were often stretched to field three teams this season so much so that the first team was left short of substitutes . |
| 15 | You need to stop so that the first square at the left is number 46 . |
| 16 | THEN you let go of the latch so that the first loop slides over and is cast off . |
| 17 | Multiple passes through the camera increase the difficulty of exact placing and synchronization , which is why two or four projectors are often preferable While the projectors can be used in line , with the light of one lamp passing through two or more strips of developed and printed film , so that the first image goes through the second before hitting the unexposed film , the use of four rather than two projectors generally requires the use of a prism to bring the beam of light to the camera lens . |
| 18 | You got so that the first thing you did every day was to go into the kitchen and say good morning to it . |
| 19 | So that the first question for the Formalist ‘ is not how to study literature , but what the subject matter of literary study actually is ’ ( p. 102 , my italics ) . |
| 20 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 21 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 22 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 23 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 24 | An external consultant was called in and the first steps towards a safer environment were taken with the installation of signs indicating emergency exits and fire extinguishers . |
| 25 | ‘ Weigh her down and the first squall rips the mast out of her , ’ he warned . |
| 26 | Sometimes a problem is so worded as to involve two successive questions , but the second question logically arises only if the first is answered in a certain way . |
| 27 | We disagree strongly with any calculation of dosage being based on plasma half life derived from the difference between only two observations , especially if the first of them is taken early in the distribution and not in the elimination phase . |
| 28 | He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth . |
| 29 | Potato failed to be accessed only because the first vowel was missing . |
| 30 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |