Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much casual evidence that , during the stock market crash in October 1987 , the futures market crashed first and then dragged the spot market down . |
| 2 | The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting . |
| 3 | The index set defined first is known as the prime index , to distinguish it from the alternate indexes . |
| 4 | The remuneration system depends first of all , to some degree , on ‘ Buggins ’ turn' , and the discretionary element which is a feature of most remuneration systems these days is entirely based on pleasing your boss of the moment . |
| 5 | What causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise first , and how does the body clock develop later ? |
| 6 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 7 | The £6,697 vehicle shared first place with the Volkswagen Polo deisel in a list by the Environmental Transport Association . |
| 8 | This time the researchers have looked for steps in the decay chain of a B meson , in which the b quark converts first into a c quark and then into an s quark ; this means that the B meson decays into a charmed D meson , and then a strange K meson . |
| 9 | When there is a dispute between nations that could bring a threat to peace , the Security Council listens first to all sides of the argument . |
| 10 | It was a final worthy of Lords … the villagers of Kington and Frocester did the knockout cup proud … the Herefordshire team batted first … wicketkeeper Michael Porteous was top scorer with 45 … skipper Edward price got 29 … |
| 11 | It was a final worthy of Lords … the villagers of Kington and Frocester did the knockout cup proud … the Herefordshire team batted first … wicketkeeper Michael Porteous was top scorer with 45 … skipper Edward price got 29 … |
| 12 | The Boarding House had first been produced at the Lyceum Theatre , London , in 1811 , but we have no record of when Vale first began acting , only that , according to the Gentleman 's Magazine , he made his ‘ metropolitan début at the Olympic under the management of the late Mr Wrench ’ ( Benjamin Wrench , q.v . ) . |
| 13 | The control unit executed first the left-hand instruction , then the right-instruction , of each word in the program . |
| 14 | Well we 'll get the motor work done first |
| 15 | In fact the Dunning Committee reported first . |
| 16 | Yachts may go the the government wharf to clear first immigration and second customs . |
| 17 | This alteration , small and innocent-looking though it is , settles the chronological relation between the two versions of the passage : the one in the theatre score came first . |
| 18 | What can the County Council do first of all to stop people moving house and secondly , to stop people stop d to prevent any change in the number and distribution of second homes ? |
| 19 | A member of the Residence hotel group , the Hotel Murren offers first class accommodation , comfort and excellent facilities . |
| 20 | Despite the variety and the complexity , the animal work indicates first and foremost that mate choice can be profoundly influenced by early experience . |
| 21 | I 'd like the Laboratory building checked first , and as quickly as possible so that the staff can get back to work . |
| 22 | The merger move had first been announced by the Serbian communists on June 7 , with the Socialist Alliance expressing itself in favour on July 5 . |
| 23 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 24 | Her father himself had been an army officer trained first in St Petersburg and then in France , . |
| 25 | However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal . |