Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be considered extremely fortunate that the first preparations of the sodium salt of penicillin , which although of great antibacterial activity contained over 99 per cent of impurities , showed so little toxicity . |
| 2 | The latter was aptly named , so tart that the first gulp curled your lips back . |
| 3 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 4 | It is perhaps significant that the first reported comment by a United States court on the Convention concerned this very area . |
| 5 | In these circumstances of deprivation , stress and social disapproval , it is not surprising that the first priority of single parents is to get married and re-enter the ‘ secure ’ state . |
| 6 | If anything , it was rather suspicious that the first assay should produce an answer so apt ; the prognostics of bishops were often known to be ambiguous in the extreme . |
| 7 | The second possibility that Nikolaev committed the murder under the guidance of the NKVD seems to be more likely that the first possibility because so many people seem to have conveniently neglected their duties but I still think that it is not the most likely . |
| 8 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 9 | We can be reasonably sure that the first water vapours were the natural result of condensation of the outgassed products of volcanoes . |
| 10 | In fact it could be very significant that the first words of the poem are , I imagine , because what does the poet , what do any of us do , we sit down to write something . |