Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this case that first showed the considerable legal sanctions available against unions under the new legislation . |
| 2 | Sudden moves from the government can cause terrible trouble in the housing market , in this case fr first time buyers faced with bigger bills . |
| 3 | For some reason this first mechanical horse did not utilise the inclined ramp coupling . |
| 4 | In this conversation several first generation speakers are present , and both British English and Creole are used at different times . |
| 5 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
| 6 | A number of District Courts took the position on that issue that first resort should still be had to the Convention . |
| 7 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |
| 8 | And to complicate matters somewhat , historically many items that first appeared as luxury goods later became items of mass consumption and thus entered into the determination of the value of labour-power ; these include motor cars , vacuum cleaners , washing machines . |
| 9 | Er in the summer term particularly , at the end of the summer term those retirements thirty first of August because as you can appreciate they are sort of inundated applications at the end of the academic year . |