Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would do well to look at the life of the one who is arguably the first church planter ; the apostle Peter . |
| 2 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 3 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
| 4 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 5 | He had been right the first time . |
| 6 | you were right the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 8 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 9 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 10 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 11 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 12 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 13 | right the first time . |
| 14 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 15 | Right facing this way Simon can you turn round as well please , Robert Right the first game very easy , I 'm going to point to somebody , we 're going to go through the alphabet , they 're going to give me the name of an animal . |
| 16 | In the province of Santa Barbara , in 1887 , as we learn in Odtaa ( chronologically the first book , though written and published second ) a mad dictator , Don Lopez , withstands a determined but seemingly hopeless attempt by a heroic friend of the people , Don Manuel , to overthrow his tyranny . |
| 17 | Prior to the change in the law the relevant income tax provisions only referred to " income " ( ie there was only effectively the first limb ) and the House of Lords in Perry v Astor held that " income " following Colquhoun v Brooks [ 1889 ] 14 AC 493 , ( 1889 ) 2 TC 490 meant " any income chargeable to a tax under the British Finance Act of the year " . |
| 18 | In 1912 Punnett was appointed to the Balfour professorship of biology at Cambridge — effectively the first chair of genetics to be established anywhere — after Bateson had declined it . |
| 19 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
| 20 | As they turned into the straight on the first circuit Mill House , jumping like a buck , had the lead , with Arkle pulling hard in his wake and taking his fences superbly . |
| 21 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 22 | The CIT thanks Transport Development Group for the fine portrait of Philip Henman which now hangs on the first floor landing at 80 Portland Place . |
| 23 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 24 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |
| 25 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 26 | The Burnham Committee , which had since the First World War been responsible for determining the salaries of teachers , now produced a unified scheme , making no formal distinction between the remuneration of teachers in Primary , secondary modern , or grammar schools . |
| 27 | The comedy-writer Statius Caecilius was a Celtic speaker by birth , an Insuber from northern Italy ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1838 , p. 138 Helm ) , and apparently the first writer the proud city of Milan ever produced . |
| 28 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 29 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 30 | Caccini was dead but Peri was still composing in 1628 , when he contributed the music for the part of Clori to Marco da Gagliano 's La Flora and produced a work of his own , Jole ed Ercole , both for a ducal wedding in Florence Orpheus was still a favourite subject : witness the Orfeo dolente ( Florence in 1616 ) of Domenico Belli and La morte d'Orfeo , apparently the first opera produced in Rome , before the Papal court ( 1619 ) , by Stefano Landi . |