Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept the empirical demonstration of the social determination of knowledge one first has to accept the postulate that knowledge is socially determined . |
| 2 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
| 3 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 4 | The phrase ‘ interpretative paradigm ’ is used here as a shorthand description of newer theories of organization that first began to emerge in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | At a more general level , by the terms of the Treaty of Rome that first initiated the EC in 1957 , member countries are independent of their national governments and are not able to accept instructions from them . |
| 6 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |
| 7 | [ For November 1989 first open celebration of Roman Catholic mass since 1967 see pp. 37864-65 . ] |
| 8 | With Team 1 first Team 2 second and Ralph , Carter and Joseph in third the glass doors were smashed open . |
| 9 | Well can we not talk about page one first ? |
| 10 | Ride to Langholm in Eskdale this first night , then lie up there over the morrow . |
| 11 | To pull this off , the government should keep in mind some first principles . |
| 12 | Culled largely from pieces that first appeared in Melody Maker over the last few years , it amounts to the precise , enthusiastic explication of ‘ bliss ’ ; a kind of untidy sensual and emotional confusion engendered by the disruptive , abnormal qualities of his favourite music ( which includes the Pixies , Sonic Youth and Public Enemy ) . |
| 13 | She had n't seen Jenny since she had moved to Moorlake that first week-end but she had known that it would not be long before Jenny returned . |
| 14 | Note that for all point groups without degeneracy all first overtones are totally symmetric . |
| 15 | Although the quality of diamonds which most immediately strikes the modern imagination is their capacity to command attention as symbols of majesty or affluence by reason of their fire and lustre , it was their quality as the hardest substance on earth that first engaged attention . |
| 16 | After two days of talks held near Lisbon ( Portugal ) , between MPLA-PT and UNITA representatives , UNITA on June 18 announced the withdrawal of its delegation " for consultations " ; the two sides reportedly agreed only that further talks would be held [ see p. 37365 for April 1990 first official direct talks between the two sides ] . |
| 17 | They joined us for breakfast that first sunny morning on the terrace of our secluded villa tucked amid the pine trees by the sparkling blue sea . |
| 18 | Suddenly I was back in the presence of the unpredictable figure I 'd met in the library at Easterness that first night , and as uncertain now as then . |
| 19 | There are three final points about section 2. first , like sections 3 and 5 , it applies only to ‘ business liability . ’ |
| 20 | It was the Metro 's practicality around town that first attracted him . |