Example sentences of "first [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 2 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 3 | We take this paper to mark the beginning of the era of modern computing , since it was the " first widely circulated document about high speed computers " ( Knuth 1970 ) . |
| 4 | The generalized conclusion ( first widely popularized by Martinson ( 1974 ) ) that ‘ nothing works ’ became widely accepted less because of its validity than because it was a message suited to its time , and because the disappointment of the high hopes invested in reform led to an over-reaction against the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 5 | Innocent was adamant that Lupold was unacceptable and he made it clear in June 1205 , at first secretly and later publicly , that Philip would have to drop Lupold as negotiator . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the first side-by-side racing of the year will take place at Glasgow Green on Saturday , when the Glasgow University students put on their annual charities regatta . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the first side-by-side racing of the year will take place at Glasgow Green on Saturday , when the Glasgow University students put on their annual charities regatta . |
| 8 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 9 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 10 | It 's always better to sleep on something first rather than regret the outcome afterwards . |
| 11 | So while it is a good idea to move in on all your slow payers as quickly as possible , it is an even better idea to concentrate your efforts on your biggest accounts first rather than spreading them more thinly and less effectively over all your customers . |
| 12 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 13 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 14 | He was in business as a currier , dressing and colouring tanned leather , first rather unsuccessfully in Truro and later in Tuckingmill near Camborne in Cornwall . |
| 15 | No I think erm para five three I think was probably one of the er unless the panel found that some of policies were unduly restricted and detailed or er which were not a struc structural significance erm yeah probably the first rather than the second reference . |
| 16 | But she had made up her mind never to allow herself to get close to him , in case there was a repetition of that first rather disturbing kiss . |
| 17 | She gave him a gracious little nod , determined to die first rather than do any such thing . |
| 18 | At 17/971 , first right through the archway are the remains of the Monastery and Church of St Michael , an important church for the followers of Jan Hus , where many of his friends preached and where the sacrament was given sub utraque specie , in both kinds ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 19 | Or do we want them really to understand what they 're doing first presumably . |
| 20 | Let's r log on to the A drive first presumably ? |
| 21 | In 1773 Mozart also wrote his first wholly original piano concerto . |
| 22 | The group already owns stakes in BSkyB ( 17.5% ) and Yorkshire-Tyne Tees , an ITV company ( 14% ) , but Thames will be its first wholly owned television production and distribution business . |
| 23 | The first wholly non-communist Bulgarian government since the Second World War , formed following the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) victory in the October general election [ see p. 38539 ] , took office on Nov. 8 , when the National Assembly approved the Cabinet by 128 votes to 90 . |
| 24 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 25 | As his own prose essays on ‘ Nature ’ were being admired by the adolescent girls in the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel , and approved by the minister , by his father and by Ashcroft Noble , and eventually published in sectarian and national journals , Edward discovered the English poets , first slowly under imposition and then , in a rush , in his father 's wide-ranging library . |
| 26 | From there I looked back to see Xanthe begin to talk to Mrs Young , at first slowly , with brakes on , and then faster and faster , until all the unhappiness was pouring out like a flood . |
| 27 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 28 | From this age group , the level began to increase first slowly ( infant mortality at the maternal age group 30–34 was lower than in the age group 20–24 ) and from age 35 more rapidly , although the mortality of infants born to women in the 35–39 years old group was not much higher than in the age group 20–24 which is often considered as the prime time for reproduction . |
| 29 | They put up dazibao which at first mostly mourned Chai , but the contents of the posters soon became more politically oriented . |
| 30 | The first commercially available quinolone product was nalidixic acid ( 2 ) — a 1,8-naphthyridonecarboxylic acid or 8-azaquinolonecarboxylic acid — produced in 1962 by G. Y. Lesher and coworkers . |