Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually I 'll get in first , that 'll be rather good cos I do n't have to pay . |
| 2 | I would like to first call , in alphabetical order , Robert |
| 3 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 4 | A curious fact which might seem at first to constitute an exception to this explanation turns out to provide further confirmation of it . |
| 5 | The head , the deputy and the school secretary have to put together the information which can lead to first comparisons on the basis of the Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 6 | Her last champion of any standing was now a pinch of potash in the ruins of still-smoking Ankh-Morpork , and there were hardly any pieces that she could promote to first rank . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 8 | We 'll put him on his way to-day , and you shall follow at first light . |
| 9 | For making up you will have to first paste the motif on to ‘ A ’ , as before , then cut in ‘ C ’ . |
| 10 | Let's see what you can make of first of all that one . |
| 11 | You can find out before anyone else who it is that 's in trouble over rates or who 's in debt or who 's emigrating , so that you can get in first and grab their paltry few acres . |
| 12 | This is something you can practise at first when sitting or standing still . |
| 13 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 14 | In terms of the social system , for example , one might look at first degree courses in terms of social selection and access — one of the functions identified in Figure 1.1 . |
| 15 | I said , we 'll have to first time and yet it 's all he wants and he was gon na take a day 's pay off . |
| 16 | For example , we might begin by first attacking the mentalist notion of " privileged access " . |
| 17 | If there 's nothing , apart from that we can move onto first aid . |
| 18 | Overall most anthropologists would probably see indirect connection between all the factors which Engels considered , but these interrelations must remain much more problematic and ambiguous than they might seem at first , and the general conclusions which Engels sought in the work of Morgan are not possible . |
| 19 | After some preparatory work in Napier , they will learn at first hand about how organisations work , relating theory to the aims of their particular community partner organisation and how it achieves those aims . |
| 20 | They can function as first homes for some young families , and Dunn et al . |
| 21 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 22 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 23 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 24 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 25 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 26 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 27 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 28 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 29 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 30 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |