Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 2 | To begin with , consider the subset unc comprising those polynomials ( i.e. sequences ) whose every term , excepting possibly the first , is zero . |
| 3 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 4 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 5 | After the therapist has introduced him/herself , explaining something about their profession , and the actual referral process , they might continue by explaining how the first session will proceed . |
| 6 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |
| 7 | The German Ideology is often seen with the Theses on Feuerbach , which was written just before it , as forming together the first formulation of Marxism . |
| 8 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 9 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 10 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 11 | A large selection of vintage prints will be on offer in this sale of photographs , including possibly the first print of André Kertesz 's silver print of ‘ Chat Noir ’ ( est. $50–70,000 ; £30–40,000 ) and a group of four works by Tina Modotti : a platinum print , circa 1926 , entitled ‘ Woman carrying Olla ’ ( est. $40–60,000 ; £25–35,000 ) , silver prints of a ‘ Mexican peasant boy ’ and ‘ Campesinos ’ ( both est. $20–30,000 ; £11–17,000 ) and a platinum print from the early 1920s entitled ‘ Lily and Bud ’ ( est. $7–10,000 ; £4–5,500 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ But , ’ said Fael-Inis , ‘ for the moment we are concerned with the Conablaiche , and with turning back the First Herald . |
| 13 | And without another word he left the table , went out of the kitchen , presumably through the scullery , and into the backyard ; and when the sound of the door shutting came to them , Mick turned with a laugh towards Joe , saying , ‘ I bet you 're wondering where the first part of grace before meals went . ’ |
| 14 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 15 | Though accepting both the first and the third , the philosophically unsophisticated would reject the second . |
| 16 | Prime with two to three coats of eggshell , thinning down the first one with white spirit to avoid ridges . |
| 17 | Wiping away the first drop , which might be contaminated by perspiration , she waited until a second drop formed , then pressed her finger on to the chemically treated reagent strip . |
| 18 | In fact holoenzymes reconstituted in vitro with truncated α-subunits , α-235 or α-256 , containing respectively the first 235 and 256 amino acids of the 329 residues of the α protein were perfectly able to initiate transcription at constitutive promoters , but were unable to respond to CRP activation at type I promoters [ 13 ] . |
| 19 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 20 | When I , I erm was calling out the first , right ? |
| 21 | Samsung Software America is bringing out the first of its anticipated shrinkwrapped Unix office automation products : Replix , a full-featured networked client/server Fax management application targeted at mission-critical environments in medium to large organisations . |
| 22 | I remember crying out the first time , " It hurts ! " and Lang saying grimly , " It 's meant to . " |
| 23 | More than anything else it has changed the public lifestyle of Catholicism for the ordinary churchgoer so that it is hard for the young actually to realize that thirty years ago Mass said wholly in Latin , including even a first reading of Epistle and Gospel , was simply taken for granted by most people . |
| 24 | Rapidly gulping down the first drink ( or starting on spirits before changing to beer or wine ) may be indicative of craving for the " feel " of alcohol . |
| 25 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 26 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 27 | Although menstrual cycles vary quite considerably in length from person to person , the average length is about 28 days with the ‘ period ’ taking up the first five or six of these . |
| 28 | How can we allow any weakening in our resolve to give meaning to the watchword ‘ life before death ’ for the countless thousands , especially among Africa 's children , who have little chance of reaching even the first milestone ? |
| 29 | Yet the great mystery of schizophrenia remains — it is still unclear precisely what role , if any , such factors have had in bringing about the first onset of the disorder . |
| 30 | At last week 's Orbit trade show in Switzerland , Pinnacle was showing off the first in what will be a family of Mbus PDS-3 systems that 'll house Hypersparc and be followed by PDS-10 , Sparcstation 10-compatibles next year . |