Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] first and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |
| 2 | Long Valley Lad ( 9.15 ) looks good enough for the first and Kick The Ball ( 9.45 ) has a perfect Trap 6 draw . |
| 3 | He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board . |
| 4 | They blended together from the first and there can be no doubt that Harry 's forceful play on the right wing was one of the prime reasons why Simpson was able to crack in so many goals . |
| 5 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 6 | The extra eight minutes in Maxim 's reading are accounted for almost entirely by the first and fourth movements ; the former lacks inner tension , while the latter sags alarmingly in the middle . |
| 7 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
| 8 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 9 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 10 | A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem . |
| 11 | Summing up on the first and second reasons , it is evident that the main objection to Article 86 legislation is that business does not relish the prospect of fines for abuse of monopoly power , because it would have to take competition policy more seriously in future . |
| 12 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 13 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 14 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 15 | Why did costs of service provision for Inner London Boroughs go up relatively fast in the first and third periods and barely increase in the intermediate year ? |
| 16 | Bear slightly right across the first and second fields , go over a stile and bear slightly right across the third field , over another stile and across the right hand corner of the last field , going over a stile midway along the right hand boundary . |