Example sentences of "[num ord] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Removing first only the belt . |
| 2 | Her belief is that to reach a very wide audience one must establish character first so the audience can identify itself with the issue , through the character . |
| 3 | First tonight the daughter of a millionaire farmer has been beaten and shot to death . |
| 4 | This method of teaching , though daunting at first far the pupil , is a formative experience , the aspect of the course to which most Oxford graduates look back with most gratitude . |
| 5 | The only evidence suggests he hit the central barrier first then the coach . |
| 6 | The key here is to take as little sand as possible , just clipping the ball off the top of the sand , contacting the ball first then the sand . |
| 7 | First then the proposition that management should accept a responsibility for doing everything possible to keep prices stable or to reduce them . |
| 8 | A point to note about technique is that when you actually go round the mark in strong winds the daggerboard should be retracted first then the mast track moved back in preparation for the reach . |
| 9 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 10 | As Royal Mail hit the second last hard the fairy-tale result seemed inevitable . |