Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the edges between reality and fiction become blurred , there is a danger that the emotion felt is first order , that is , unmediated by abstraction or knowledge of pretence . |
| 2 | The Association had been first instituted in 1380 and given the status of Corporation in 1555 by Mary of Lorraine who founded Trinity Hospital . |
| 3 | His right to sit was first referred to a select committee of the House of Commons which reported , somewhat unhelpfully , that there were arguments for and against his right to sit , and recommended clarifying legislation which , however , has not been forthcoming . |
| 4 | Such fins are similar , in principle , to those of a whole group of primitive bony fish that were living in that remote period when the move to land was first made . |
| 5 | The AEC Treaty was signed on June 3 ( the concept of an economic community having been first formulated in the 1968 Declaration of Algiers ) . |
| 6 | Successful endoscopic management of gastric Dieulafoy 's ulcer bleeding was first reported by Pointner et al . |
| 7 | In 1911 he wrote : ‘ In the past man has been first , in the future the system must be first . ’ |
| 8 | In ex parte Johnson , the ministerial statement was made during the Report Stage in the House of Lords , where the Bill had been first introduced , and again there was no subsequent parliamentary consideration of the matter . |
| 9 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |
| 10 | The principle had been first established in an Act of 1662 which authorised the levying of a capital sum or an annual rent in respect of the ‘ melioration ’ of properties following street widenings in London . |
| 11 | The worst time to exercise is first thing in the morning , because your spine is already stretched from lying in bed all night . |
| 12 | The cartoony atmosphere generated is first rate , almost like watching a animated Japanese TV show . |