Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 2 | It will be seen that this falls somewhat short of the first resort approach , which the brief does not directly address . |
| 3 | Aware of Joyce 's work throughout its progress , Samuel Beckett was naturally one of the first to recognize the significance of its ‘ autonomy of language ’ . |
| 4 | Ethel , with her good looks , height and dancing standards , was naturally one of the first to be sent across . |
| 5 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 6 | So one of the first things many of us seek to find out about other people is what they do . |
| 7 | So one of the first issues to be resolved , as Steve Heath , director of 88open operations in Europe sees it , is to define the ways in which different compilers interpret source code and how , in turn , operating systems use different compilers and compilation techniques . |
| 8 | So one of the first issues to be resolved , as Steve Heath , director of 88open operations in Europe sees it , is to define the ways in which different compilers interpret source code and how , in turn , operating systems utilise different compilers and compilation techniques . |
| 9 | And it 's So one of the first thing to do is to get your axes marked so that when you 're putting stuff in , you know which is which . |
| 10 | When he started making enquiries into the Josephs ’ business affairs in France you were obviously one of the first people he 'd ask . |
| 11 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 12 | I think that was much truer of the first series . |
| 13 | John was a substantial magnate but , in terms of land held in hereditary right , not one of the first rank . |
| 14 | It was still one of the first clear successes for the British antinuclear campaigners . |
| 15 | In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place . |
| 16 | After that , the aim was to proceed relatively quickly with a fourth Hinkley station , possibly one of the first commercially operated fast breeder reactors . |
| 17 | I am usually one of the first to try out any new development . |
| 18 | Tourist receipts are volatile , for holidays are usually one of the first casualties of reduced family expenditure during a recession . |
| 19 | She was usually one of the first in . |
| 20 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 21 | It is thus a matter for pride that some of the most eminent of the first anthropologists were really ‘ philanthropologists ’ , men of the moral calibre of Thomas F. Buxton ( 1786–1845 ) and Thomas Hodgkin ( 1798–1866 ) . |
| 22 | Nearly half of the first papers derived from Ph D research in the present study are jointly authored , and in nearly half of these cases , the thesis author is not the first author . |
| 23 | A banner group was started 10 years ago in QP , probably one of the first in Scotland . |
| 24 | It is intended to become an actual OSF Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) product , probably one of the first , as that technology becomes available , according to Unix systems management director Roy Shiderly . |
| 25 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 26 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 27 | He was also one of the first members of the British Deaf Association when that was formed in 1890 . |
| 28 | They were also one of the first bands to sample . ’ |
| 29 | He was also one of the first to insist that the discovery of the root cause of a problem is an essential first stage in the achievement of a cure . |
| 30 | Although this interest in pseudo-historical connections was Morgan 's primary concern , he was also one of the first anthropologists to understand that the names used to designate relatives are not simply determined by linguistic rules without reference to social factors ; kinship terms have an important social dimension , since relatives grouped together and called by the same term exhibit , at least in certain respects , shared patterns of behaviour . |