Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 2 | As the rival armies became entrenched in the battlefields of France , the realization dawned that hostilities would last a lot longer than at first thought . |
| 3 | According to Freud , this happens after a period of ‘ anaesthesia ’ , in fact , often not until after first coitus . |
| 4 | Either one knows something , immediately , directly and at first hand , or one does not . |
| 5 | The Jerusalem Post of Dec. 29 pointed out that for first time the USA had backed a resolution in the Council ( as opposed to the General Assembly ) which referred to " all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 , including Jerusalem " . |
| 6 | It is better to train with such a person in a first rate department even if at first sight the research project is not quite what you wish to study . |
| 7 | All of them have to hear people 's needs regularly and at first hand , and judge for themselves how well they ( and other lesbian and gay services ) are meeting them . |
| 8 | We also saw how closely related these two stitch formations really are , even though at first sight this may not appear to be true . |