Example sentences of "[adv prt] to first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 2 | The complete series takes students up to First Certificate level . |
| 3 | I think this is tosh myself , but it 's really up to first ascensionists , so send me details if you wish . |
| 4 | Conversely , a long period may restrict the purchaser should he wish to make changes to the vendor management team ( either because they do not live up to first impressions or because he wishes to promote them within the enlarged group ) . |
| 5 | I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles . |
| 6 | The instinctive urge to acquire a stake in the country , to get back to first principles and become , once again , master of his own fate , becomes ever more apparent as our top-heavy , complex society lurches from crisis to crisis . |
| 7 | But instead of a square heel , or even a radically smoothed-off heel similar to the Revell acoustic we recently reviewed , Andy Manson has gone back to first principles and has ended up virtually doing away with the heel altogether . |
| 8 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 9 | But it is easier to cope with these pressures if we go back to first principles . |
| 10 | It is back to first principles again . |
| 11 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 12 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 13 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
| 14 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 15 | But having to go back to first principles proved a decisive advantage . |
| 16 | change back to first colour and knit about 10 rows . |
| 17 | INTEL P5 MICROPROCESSOR PUT BACK TO FIRST QUARTER 1993 |
| 18 | We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements . |
| 19 | Okay , move on to first aid . |