Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These only cover the first two years , so that most secondary schoolchildren have to leave the region to complete their education . |
| 2 | I only get the first two options — everything else disappears off the bottom of the screen and reappears at the top , corrupted and unaffected by the mouse , even though CGA appears to be supported . |
| 3 | Our results thus provide the first direct evidence that tamoxifen does not have antioestrogenic effects on bone in postmenopausal women and indicate a possible oestrogenic effect . |
| 4 | ‘ I would write about forty , and he said to me once : ‘ I always skip the first twenty because they 're not very good ! ’ ’ |
| 5 | The country was spared the follies that all too often accompany the first six months of a new government while tyro-ministers clamber up what the Civil Service likes to call their learning-curve . |
| 6 | Berkeley has now become the first nuclear power station in Britain to have all its spent fuel removed . |
| 7 | Goleta , California-based , SmartStar Corporation , the company that years ago put the first fourth generation language interface on a relational database machine and then created the first VAX/VMS 4GL , has popped up with SmartStar Vision , a new object-oriented application development environment . |
| 8 | Start working your way through all the programmes you 've videoed and never managed to watch , then watch the first two series of thirtysomething ( again ) . |
| 9 | So I suggest you actually copy the first three notes of bar fifteen and then put the rest in correctly . |
| 10 | It was reported on Feb. 5 that a Thai mining company had recently become the first foreign company to be awarded an offshore tin-prospecting concession in Myanma . |
| 11 | I therefore move the first special resolution . |