Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our evidence which shows that the first glimmerings of our new paradigm emerged around 1860 and we expect that by 2010 the shift will be virtually complete , although it will take longer for its changes to affect everyone . |
| 2 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 3 | Who knows whether the first Americans who came across the Bering Strait in pre-history were indeed the first . |
| 4 | It seemed a very strange perception , since everybody knows that the first thing such people did following privatisation was to double , and even treble , the already generous salaries of themselves and their colleagues . |
| 5 | It will be recalled that the proceedings had been adjourned from June to August , and about that time of year it appears that the first appellant was offered employment in Italy . |
| 6 | As Figure 2.6 indicates , he argues that the first Kondratiev wave was dominated by Lancashire , Shropshire and the Black Country , the second by South Wales and the North East , and the third and fourth waves by the West Midlands and Greater London ( Hall , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |