Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Right so the first thing we , as a crime prevention officer , we , well I look at anyway , is surrounding areas of a house that ca n't be seen from the road .
2 Right so the first thing you do if we 're dealing with a hundred and fifty .
3 Prior to the change in the law the relevant income tax provisions only referred to " income " ( ie there was only effectively the first limb ) and the House of Lords in Perry v Astor held that " income " following Colquhoun v Brooks [ 1889 ] 14 AC 493 , ( 1889 ) 2 TC 490 meant " any income chargeable to a tax under the British Finance Act of the year " .
4 Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir .
5 So perhaps the first thing to say is that , as with the story , there is a considerable art of the pacing of humour .
6 So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage .
7 Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam .
8 In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late .
9 So here the first number , in this case nineteen eighty nine , is the date that the site was dug .
10 In the quotation above only the first sense is intended by the author — the full potential of a word is never actualized entirely in any one of its uses .
11 No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ .
12 Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) .
13 ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ .
14 Yellow phosphine ( 7 ) was not only the first acridinium compound to be discovered , but was also the first basic orange dyestuff .
15 Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely .
16 Where the case is apt for a Ghosh direction , the whole test must be given not just the first part : Ravenshad [ 1990 ] Crim LR 398 ( CA ) and Brennan [ 1990 ] Crim LR 118 ( CA ) ( on handling ) .
17 He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ?
18 During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’
19 I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs .
20 Ian Rush fed the ball to Steve McManaman , who for just about the first time was decisive with his delivery , hitting the ball low across the face of the goal , and there was Walters at the far post to tap it in .
21 There you were , come to save our pathetic little radio station , and just about the first thing you did was scoop that concert in Harare , and at the height of the cultural boycott , because you 'd emphasised our independent nature .
22 Not often the first person , always the third person but authentic all the same .
23 It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology .
24 However , shortly afterwards the first meeting of a newly formed all-party Supreme National Council broke up in disarray after the members had failed to reach agreement on any issue .
25 I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too .
26 Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds .
27 Well straight away the first thing he done was to put these new tables in , and that was his idea when he put these tables in to get more slate , and less wages .
28 It is also reportedly the first Unix connectivity product built as an integrated service of the NetWare server .
29 Ahead of the voting 110 of the Supreme Soviet 's 450 deputies — members of the radical Democratic Bloc uniting the parliamentary groups from the nationalist Rukh organization , the Ukrainian Language Society and the new Republican Party ( founded on April 30 ) — had walked out of the chamber in protest at Ivashko 's candidacy , on the grounds that he was also currently the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) , and that the acting Speaker of the chamber had refused to read out a statement by the Democratic Bloc to the effect that combining state and party posts in this way was impermissible .
30 Right now the first job that we want you to do is to help us to sort out some of the things .
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