Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money there the first year was £6 a year ; the next was £8 ; and the third year when I come away it was £12 . |
| 2 | That chapter ends with the calming of the storm where the first hint of ‘ failure ’ on the part of the disciples is found . |
| 3 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 4 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 5 | To some extent , it was a repetition of the atmosphere early in the war when the first president , Bani Sadr , was at odds with many other senior figures and the clergy in general . |
| 6 | Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended . |
| 7 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 8 | From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’ |
| 9 | Train spotting had hardly become an attraction for the boys of the day when the first Easter excursion thundered through Balcombe Tunnel en route to Brighton . |
| 10 | Take , for instance , the argument about a first cause . |
| 11 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 12 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 13 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 14 | Since 1983 , the year when the first of a series of large scale mass media campaigns started and the momentum against tobacco advertising and smoking in the workplace increased , the average annual fall has been 2.54% . |
| 15 | Erm example there of T. You 'll recognize the T. Now the first thing I should remind you is of course that to recognize anything we must have something to compare it against . |
| 16 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |
| 17 | It represents the point at which the inflexion points on the curve merge , and so it is the temperature where the first , second , and third derivatives of the Gibbs free energy with respect to mole fraction are zero . |
| 18 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 19 | So the second attitude can flourish only in a climate where the first is general . |
| 20 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 21 | Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came . |
| 22 | A week later the first steam and ash began to erupt from a newly formed crater on the summit . |
| 23 | If OUP are entirely satisfied with the method of text capture and with a reasonably large proportion of the machine-readable output ( say , the equivalent of one volume of OED ) , there is no reason why the first editing phase , i.e. the integration of OED and Supplement into a single work , should not be begun , assuming no other technical problems prevented this . |
| 24 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 25 | A year later the first ‘ red label ’ records were on the market ( 28 , right ) . |
| 26 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |