Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 2 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 3 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 4 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 5 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
| 6 | Divided into two parts , the questionnaire asked for first reactions to both the general SVQs accredited in April , and the new Skillstart awards accredited at the same time . |
| 7 | The questionnaire asked for first reactions to both the general SVQs and the new Skillstart awards . |
| 8 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 9 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 10 | The Government refused at first even to meet him , citing the need not to inflame those holding the Beirut hostages , and did precious little more for a long time after the hostages were freed . |
| 11 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 12 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 13 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 14 | High-minded , worthy and earnest , the Independent thrived at first , an impressive achievement in Britain 's crowded newspaper market . |
| 15 | When regular radio broadcasting began in 1922 , the press refused at first to publish free the daily programme schedules . |
| 16 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 17 | The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes . |
| 18 | The patient improved at first but is now slipping back and a different set of symptoms has appeared . |
| 19 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 20 | Although the party had at first favoured the maintenance of two German states the Jan. 12-14 conference affirmed its policy goal to be " a united Germany … with the consent of our neighbours " . |