Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ German unity depends first of all on the German people … and France will not be against it . |
| 2 | For those who are dissatisfied with housework , a statement of this feeling is problematic because the break between socially acceptable behaviour and individual experience has first to be made . |
| 3 | UK civil service holds first joint environmental meeting |
| 4 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 5 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 6 | However , every Halls-run concert has first to surmount the hurdle of gaining sponsorship or underwriting . |
| 7 | The support from one 's functional colleagues requires first of all a high degree of mutuality of respect for each other 's expertise and a shared acceptance of the objective that you are trying to achieve . |
| 8 | This can be represented by a quasi-chemical process where the formation of a solvent-polymer contact requires first the breaking of ( 1–1 ) and ( 2–2 ) contacts , and can be expressed as an interchange energy AΔΕ 12 per contact , given by |
| 9 | Environmental Audit Completes First Phase |
| 10 | New gallery of Egyptian art holds first exhibition with an unpublished head of Tutankhamun |
| 11 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 12 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 13 | Also , the philosophy underlying the NHS 's information strategy is that clinical information comes first . |
| 14 | The central core of this tendon takes the highest strain and in a typical speed injury , the inner core breaks first leaving a classic black hole effect in the centre of the tendon , seen on ultrasonic scans of the damaged leg . |
| 15 | The Malthusian debate is concerned with the way in which , through the centuries , economic growth has first induced and then restrained population growth . |
| 16 | The young teacher speaks first . |
| 17 | Stabbed policewoman takes first steps |
| 18 | By ‘ best ’ results here it is meant that the correct word occurs first or near the top of the ordered list of allowable strings . |
| 19 | This lovely melody follows first one pattern , then another , without establishing a precise thematic design . |
| 20 | Others drove to work before 7.30am or scheduled business calls first thing so that they could drive in later . |
| 21 | READY SYSTEMS HAS FIRST PORTABLE REAL-TIME OPERATING ENVIRONMENT … |
| 22 | The true speculator acts first and adjusts later . |
| 23 | It 's not quite as far to the main school , cos the main school goes first and the prep school far , no there 's no up that road , it does n't go anywhere only to the school . |
| 24 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |