Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Internal movement within the worst-affected areas should be looked at first . |
| 32 | Hobbes 's systematic conception of politics as dependent on ethics and then , via ethics , on physics , means that his natural philosophy must be looked at first and in most detail . |
| 33 | And , as is often the case in the media , literary texts have the habit of not turning out to mean what might be expected at first sight . |
| 34 | In medical books one can anticipate that a description of a disease will be decomposed into first a subsection on the etiology , then a subsection on the diagnostic signs , then a subsection on the treatment , and finally a subsection about prognosis . |
| 35 | The concept of a failure rate of over 25% in the First Division has raised objections from those who understand that an omelette can not be made without first breaking some eggs but would rather not run the risk of being dairy produce . |
| 36 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 37 | The main body of the 1992 budget , approved by the Council of Ministers on Sept. 18 [ see p. 38445 ] , and presented to the National Assembly on Oct. 15 , was adopted on Oct. 20 by invoking Article 49.3 of the Constitution ( " engagement of the government 's responsibility " ) , whereby legislation could be adopted on first reading unless the opposition tabled a vote of censure . |
| 38 | But the number of police constables that we can have available , would make a big difference to the lives of the very ordinary people , and that 's where we should be looking at first . |
| 39 | There may be complaints and accusations of neglect to be endured at first , but it is stimulating for the old person to have new company and most important for you , the carer , to maintain some friends and some life outside the home , both for present needs and for the future when you will be alone . |
| 40 | The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance . |
| 41 | The Opposition believe that we should consider alternatives and the ability of magistrates to say that something must be done with first offenders and that an alternative can work . |
| 42 | The integrand can be expanded to first order in : . |
| 43 | The War Artists Advisory Committee was set up , not only to stimulate and artistic record of war and related activities , but also to help ensure that at least some of the artists would be saved from First World War carnage . |
| 44 | ( The inspection light must be turned on first and then off , to make the card reader scan . ) |
| 45 | Her eyes slowly forced their way open , only to be dazzled at first by a strong shaft of sunlight which had penetrated fresh dainty curtains . |
| 46 | An arrestable offence is : ( 1 ) an offence for which the sentence is fixed by law ( murder , treason ) ; ( 2 ) an offence for which a person of 21 or over may be sentenced on first conviction to imprisonment for a term of five years ( This covers common law and statutory offences ) ; ( 3 ) those offences listed in section 24(2) , e.g. Theft Act 1968 ( ss. 12(I) and 25(1) ) ; Sexual Offences Act 1956 ( ss.14 , 22 and 23 ) ) . |
| 47 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 48 | With the exception of round carrots , which may be sown in first in pots , and kohl rabi , which is not a true root , all root crops are sown directly into the ground because their tap roots will be misshapen if transplanted . |
| 49 | A police officer said the window could not be opened without first leaning over a radiator and a curtained window box . |
| 50 | There are a few instances , however , when even TNF needs further simplification , and these are looked at in Section 3.8 which may be skipped on first reading . |
| 51 | I have an open ticket for where I 'm flying to first . ’ |
| 52 | Get a child to love a poem ; every word and phrase in it need not be understood at first . |
| 53 | Patterns of support between kin can not be understood without first making some reference to the ways in which the structure of the population , and patterns of family formation associated with it , have themselves changed over time . |
| 54 | What we 'll be doing at first then is just to take an overview of the house , you would n't necessarily get that on an ordinary tour . |
| 55 | Only after Dirac had predicted that there must be positrons as well as electrons ( verified in 1932 ) did he and others set out to see whether the charge and the mass of an electron can be derived from first principles . |
| 56 | For all that , there are certain well-defined causes of urethritis and they will be dealt with first . |
| 57 | Some things need to be dealt with first and others are of lower priority and can wait . |
| 58 | Since those warm springs were the principal reason for the existence of Baden in the earliest days , perhaps they should be dealt with first . |
| 59 | As most tutors will be engaged in the correction of correspondence course tests submitted by students , this matter will be dealt with first . |
| 60 | Shipment of a pre-release version of Matisse 2.2 on the KSR1 is planned for fourth quarter 1993 , with the final release to be shipped in first quarter 1994 . |