Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
| 2 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 3 | To enter such houses , to know at first hand such interiors , was to give a face to the masses , mitigating on the one hand the terror of revolution , satisfying on the other the promptings of Christian conscience . |
| 4 | Whilst in the design studio they were able to observe at first hand the adaption , of a Chinese Motif which was being prepared by Roger McDowell , Contract Designer , for another Swedish customer . |
| 5 | Scotland 's most-capped goalkeeper , with 54 appearances , is needed at Bramall Lane because Dave Bassett 's side , who face Sheffield Wednesday on 3 April , have nobody else eligible for the FA Cup to cover for first choice Alan Kelly . |
| 6 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 7 | This will provide an unprecedented opportunity for many to experience at first hand the richness and diversity of Japanese culture . |
| 8 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 9 | If the quail have been reared with siblings , both sexes prefer to mate with first cousins . |
| 10 | I 've got a lot of preparation to do before first period . ’ |
| 11 | One week to go before first Dress Rehearsal of Re:Joyce . |
| 12 | On reaching Port Said , however , the captain declared that Annesley would have to be more respectably attired if he wished to continue in first class . |
| 13 | Finally , I return to the introduction , in which the pervasive theme was failure to plan from first principles , and lack of vision . |
| 14 | Its management decided to start from first principles by developing critical success factors . |
| 15 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 16 | Yet in spite of the enormous output of historical books and articles on modern subjects , the general historian does not always have good secondary studies by specialists to cut a path for him through material which he has not time to study at first hand . |
| 17 | ESSEX school students of all ages now have a unique opportunity to study at first hand the integration of wildlife and landscape conservation with modern farming techniques . |
| 18 | He also looked likely to join Sheffield Wednesday at one stage but in the end had to settle for First Division Newcastle . |
| 19 | Since I am not one to judge on first impressions I stepped tentatively inside . |
| 20 | Definitions are sometimes hard to grasp on first reading . |
| 21 | The advantage of the telephone is that it is a two-way communication which gives you the chance to assess at first hand ( or ear ) why your account is not being paid . |
| 22 | Although he did not begin painting seriously until 1911 , Gris had thus been in a position to watch at first hand the birth and development of Picasso 's Cubism . |
| 23 | Send your answers ( for example , 1=E , 2=A and so on ) and your name and address on a postcard to : BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine /Bradstone Competition , PO Box 55 , Wetherby , West Yorks LS23 7ET to arrive by first post on Friday September 13 , 1991 . |
| 24 | Jot your entries on a postcard please , addressed to Caption Competition 1155 to arrive by first post on 27 March . |
| 25 | Add your name , address and daytime phone number and send the card to : WWF/Acclaim contest , Daily Mirror , Blackhorse Road , London SE99 7TS to arrive by first post Wednesday September 23 . |
| 26 | In eighteen thirty five she returned as a teacher , her salary to pay for first Emily 's , and then Anne 's tuition there . |
| 27 | Furthermore , Regan 's incompetent researchers ought not to get to first base , at least under present UK regulations , for they would have been required to state objectives , if only of an ‘ advancement of knowledge ’ , which the assessors would judge to be significant enough to outweigh any proposed harm ( under 5.4 ) to the animals at risk . |
| 28 | Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring . |
| 29 | It may be difficult to discern at first glance , but stay awhile and look and it will become apparent . |
| 30 | However , Sir John Cockroft was in the USA at the time , did not attend the lecture and so was unable to get at first hand insights into what the Soviets had , and had not , done . |