Example sentences of "[adv] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note down the first thoughts that come into your head and follow where they lead ; but do try to answer all the questions . |
| 2 | Obviously the first criteria is to make a profit and in the wave of enthusiasm for a new scheme a balance of potential profit against input of effort needs to be made . |
| 3 | So the first tasks of the day are cooking the vegetables and preparing the lunchtime desserts — probably trifle , apple crumbs and bread pudding , because they are all firm favourites . |
| 4 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 5 | So the first things going through a buyer 's head , or that will influence them , will be the sort of lifestyle they 're actually looking for . |
| 6 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 7 | She is modest , feeling she has taken only the first steps . |
| 8 | Eating during the first week will be very similar to that on baseline days during the preparation phase ( because only the first goals in the lists will be introduced ) . |
| 9 | By contrast , the decision making system in the United States can only be described as ramshackle ; however , rationality and efficiency are not necessarily the first priorities of a democratic political system , especially one as vast and heterogeneous as the United States . |
| 10 | These , it was thought , were just the first countries on the list . |
| 11 | We are just the first ones . ’ |
| 12 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 13 | Just the first names , it 's not . |
| 14 | and yeah , well just the first names , so that they |
| 15 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |
| 16 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 17 | But these fourth-century ‘ apparatchiks ’ , the men of the age of Eubulus ( p. 245 ) , were not the first Athenians to gain power by boring work on committees . |
| 18 | Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes . |
| 19 | Moreton and Furley are not the first men to die of redundancy . |
| 20 | It can be a relief to discover that some of the worrying physical symptoms are not the first indications of some dreaded disease but are stress-related and represent perfectly normal ways of reacting to stress . |
| 21 | Not the first words spoken , but from before the surfacing of memory she has known this . |
| 22 | Spitting and firing are not the first words to spring to mind when Yorkshire 's venerable left-arm spinner Phil Carrick is mentioned . |
| 23 | The next evening was dark and cloudy ; a storm threatened and already the first drops of rain were falling . |
| 24 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 25 | Usually the first operations by the Bank are at 12 noon . |
| 26 | Windows are usually the first things to go in a riot , but medieval glass survived in many of the churches — in St. George 's and St. Martin 's , for example — and Yorkist symbols remained in the windows of St. Mary 's . |
| 27 | Members of the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service , staff voluntarily by GPs , are usually the first doctors to arrive at the scene of car accidents where they can give specialist emergency treatment , additional to that provided by ambulance staff . |
| 28 | Equally , when cuts in expenditure are considered , capital programmes are usually the first victims . |
| 29 | The fertile lowlands are always the first places to be occupied and Java was no exception . |
| 30 | To be known to the police as having a history of crime is sufficient to be categorized a gouger , and people in Easton who are well known as gougers are always the first suspects . |