Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 2 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 3 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 4 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 5 | Few of them were old enough to remember the first Great Famine of the 1840s , when Father Cavanagh had worked tirelessly to help the starving . |
| 6 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 7 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 8 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 9 | Then perhaps you 'd be good enough to answer the first of those questions , ’ she said . |
| 10 | IN December , 1943 , the men working feverishly to create the first American atomic bomb sent a team of ‘ spooks ’ to Naples . |
| 11 | In the result , the proceeds from that sale were not enough to discharge the first mortgage , let alone the subsequent ones . |
| 12 | The other semi-final saw Newtownabbey side Palm Grove come from 5–3 down to snatch a first leg 7–5 win over Ballynahinch side Montalto Rangers . |
| 13 | Though not piggishly chauvinistic enough to echo the first pronouncement , I heartily endorse the last . |
| 14 | They had to run constantly to complete the first tapping of their three hundred and fifty trees in the five hours before ten o'clock . |
| 15 | They have come through five rounds already , enough to take a First Division side to Wembley . |
| 16 | They have come through five rounds already , enough to take a First Division side to Wembley . |
| 17 | This will be not only to gain a first impression of the infrared sky but also to check that the satellite is functioning properly . |
| 18 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 19 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
| 20 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 21 | And not to benefit the first marriage and not to benefit any of the children . |
| 22 | With a longer dissertation , be careful not to overload the first part , especially if it is a biographical summary , a description of historical context , or a literature review — all of which are potentially interminable . |
| 23 | Paraskevi Patoulidou came through to grab a first ever athletics medal for a Greek girl . |
| 24 | The aim of a second investigation would be not to repeat the first one but to improve on it . |
| 25 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 26 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 27 | She was determined not to make the first move . |
| 28 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |
| 29 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 30 | Opening Poole 's letter on a visit to Bristol City Library , he began at once to write the first of two wildly intemperate replies : the country round Iron Acton was ‘ intolerably flat ’ ; Bristol contained no friends of his beyond Cottle and Estlin ( Wade was going away ) ; and as for the cottage , he would make it do . |