Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you actually look at the words first or the picture first ? |
| 2 | Options 4 and 5 allow you to drop on either side of the lateral water hazard , not nearer the hole and within two club lengths of the point marked B , where the ball first entered the hazard . |
| 3 | Ahead of her , straight ahead , she could make out the grey hills on the far side of the estuary and to her right where the land first widened out and then melted away altogether , the sea flowed to the ocean , limitless , miles of moving , salty water . |
| 4 | Then he turned through the locked and silent City and towards the Strand , where the air first begins to feel damp , blowing up the side streets with the dawn wind off the river . |
| 5 | Editors invented elaborate textual corruptions to explain this , claiming for instance that Shakespeare had written two different versions of Brutus 's reactions and that the text used for the 1623 Folio ( where the play first appeared ) had mistakenly copied them both . |
| 6 | All of these nuees were linked with the growth of a large pile or dome of viscous lava on the site of the Etang Sec , where the eruption first started . |
| 7 | Following the recent press statement by Mr Michael Forsyth MP , Scotland 's Sports Minister , I write to inform you that Mr Forsyth has accepted the Scottish Sports Council 's view that the system first introduced at its request in 1987 whereby senior staff of the Council serve also as Members of the Council , should be discontinued . |
| 8 | This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses . |
| 9 | In the year that the child first went to a nursery school his father anglicized the family name . |
| 10 | Therefore it would seem on this approach that the court first has to decide whether the covenant is intrinsically just and reasonable before it applies the object and intent test . |
| 11 | The mediaeval Greek word for galley is katergon , and it was in this nautical sense that the word first entered the Russian vocabulary . |
| 12 | What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel . |
| 13 | They believe that the student first needs to acquire a perception of the analogies involved in the patterns of the language , and to be drilled until a considerable body of material has been learned , since analysis of the language is considered by them to be an advanced study . |
| 14 | Strength , it turned out , is n't a prerequisite ( lucky thing , since tenor bells can weigh the same as a Mini ) ; in skilled hands the bell does most of the work , but a full ringing circle demands that the ringer first gets the bell moving and gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or ‘ set ’ with the mouth uppermost , ready to be rung on . |
| 15 | It was in 1910 that the brigade first entered competition work , when they competed at Watford . |
| 16 | It was at this time that the Club first negotiated to use the cricket field for ‘ tuition ’ and it became an overflow car park in 1966 . |
| 17 | If the first state among siblings always leads to a goal , it will be much more efficient than the breadth first version ; but otherwise it may be worse . |
| 18 | To achieve this necessarily takes time and it is thus the means and goals which we should examine today rather than the setting first of arbitrary ( financial ) parameters . |
| 19 | Although the self-titled first album contained corkers like Christine and Man To Child , Chadwick does n't seem too happy about it these days . |
| 20 | If the specimen first collected has perished , the picture may indeed be the type . |
| 21 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 22 | The proposal form should be checked to see if the Policyholder disclosed the illness/injury or if the complaint first occurred after inception of the policy , did the Policyholder disclose this at the appropriate renewal date . |
| 23 | PETER PEARS began his lifelong association with Benjamin Britten in 1937 , when he and the composer first gave recitals together . |
| 24 | It 's only when you 've put yourself second and the message first that you can get on with the business of communication . |
| 25 | Winston Churchill had welcomed Bonar Law as party leader in 1911 with the reflection that " if ever a national emergency makes party interests fade , we shall find in the Leader of the Opposition one who in no fictitious sense places the country and the Empire first " , a tribute that was certainly justified by Law 's role between 1914 and 1918 . |
| 26 | As we saw earlier , it was out of this primal conflict that human societies and the superego first emerged . |
| 27 | The principal part in the attack was given to General Sir Hubert Gough 's Fifth Army , with one corps of Plumer 's Second Army on its right flank and the French First Army , under General Francois Anthoine , on its left . |
| 28 | Although she 'd protest at the mere notion , she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto — to put marriage and the family first . |
| 29 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 30 | They are not to be brought here unless the court first grants leave for the proceedings to be served on them abroad . |