Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Minister not recognise the dangers of fragmenting the health service and destroying the planning framework ; the cost of ever-increasing bureaucracy ; the reduction in choice for the doctor ; the fear that this is a road that leads to a two-tier system in which money comes first and the Health Service is relegated to a safety-net , fallback provision ? |
| 2 | In a ‘ chicken and egg ’ situation , controversy flares among breed enthusiasts as to which type evolved first , and each side will take the credit for being the forebear of the other . |
| 3 | This leads us to propose the ‘ causal direction hypothesis ’ : children learn about the role of causal connectives as indicators of which event is cause and which effect before they learn about their role as indicators of which event happened first . |
| 4 | The time ordering can sometimes help out ; since causes occur before effects , knowing which variable occurred first can help . |
| 5 | By the 1870s general questions of marine biology had become prominent , partly in an evolutionary context in which life had first begun in the sea . |
| 6 | senior lecturer at Thanet Technical College in Kent , whose team won first prize in the 1992 competition , says that he has used Toque d'Or as a classroom exercise involving the whole group , not just the team who entered . |
| 7 | And to think , he wrote , that with all my previous work I barely knew what step to take first , let alone what step to take second , let us not talk about the third . |
| 8 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 9 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |