Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a recent PBAA conference , the policy was laid down that the first Public Television Licence in any given area should be community-controlled and that access be provided for educational and special interest groups . |
| 2 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 3 | An external consultant was called in and the first steps towards a safer environment were taken with the installation of signs indicating emergency exits and fire extinguishers . |
| 4 | ‘ Weigh her down and the first squall rips the mast out of her , ’ he warned . |
| 5 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 6 | The second , Blues and Beyond , takes over where the first leaves off and plunges deeper into the chromatic tones and chord substitutions Robben uses in his playing , and highlights two tracks from his ‘ Talk to You Daughter ’ album , Nothin' But The Blues and Revelation . |
| 7 | Eventually the rose beds were flattened and grassed over and a first principle was established . |
| 8 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 9 | The Boer War was on and the first sort of major conflict erm in the period of movie history , and naturally people wanted to see what the war was like . |
| 10 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 11 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 12 | And in fact I found from playing with Eric , that it was much more fun to just turn up and the first playing you did was to the audience . |
| 13 | One of the things you , you 've got to do is get used to actually talking standing up and the first thing you do you find when you s talk standing up is you discover that you 've got hands . |
| 14 | DEEP PURPLE have a 27-track , triple-album collection , titled ‘ Anthology ’ , containing all the best tracks from their first formation in 1968 up until the first split in 1976 , released by EMI on March 18 . |
| 15 | Since right up until the first census in 1801 the increase in population was not generally perceived , much contemporary comment was not qualified by this relationship . |
| 16 | In early April the excitement built up as the first shoals of mackerel were expected . |
| 17 | Then at last a cheer went up as the first portions of the ‘ bicentenary pie ’ were served to the 50,000 people who presented their £1 tickets . |
| 18 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 19 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 20 | But John Mann points out that the first test will be held in October , at the beginning of the school year when the majority of pupils will in fact , still be ten . |
| 21 | It would be not unreasonable to point out that the first two qualities have , by Goram 's own admission , had to be learned the hard way by the man whose marriages to Rangers and Tracy , his wife of the last two years , have re-shaped his professional and private life . |
| 22 | " The soldiers went out and the first creature they found was Rabscuttle , grazing on the hill-top . |
| 23 | On 20 June Peugeot went back and the first sackings of trade union leaders occurred . |
| 24 | And , and thereafter cash can flow out because the first thing that flows out are loans and guarantees . |
| 25 | He was left out while the first team travelled to Blackburn with speculation mounting that he was as much as 6lb too heavy . |
| 26 | Marriage was forbidden in their contracts too , but so many of the so-called babes broke the rule during the season that Amy found it impossible to replace them ; not having a large pool of dancers back in Britain she decided to bring the unmarried ones back after the first year 's contract was completed . |
| 27 | Walking out after the first act was becoming an addiction . |
| 28 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 29 | World stockmarkets reacted with relief and optimism at the start of the Gulf war , but some of the gains were wiped out when the first hopes of a quick victory faded , and the Soviet Union turned violent again . |