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

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1 Moreover , the commercial approach now evident suggests that this is merely a first step towards privatisation .
2 expressing your hope that these convictions signal the determination of the Guatemalan government not to tolerate any further human rights abuses , no matter who the perpetrators , and that they represent merely a first step in a concentrated programme of government action intended to return Guatemala to the rule of law ;
3 Not perhaps a first choice for the work , but an enjoyable addition to an indispensable Perséphone .
4 Conrad Allen put in a first appearance on the track in the 600 metres at Crawley .
5 Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress .
6 But this is only a first step to scientific study , and two questions naturally follow : having found D what use is it ?
7 Hence in the Budget of 1907 he took only a first step towards graduation by introducing into the tax system different rates of tax for earned and unearned income .
8 The specific plan announced by Schuman had been drafted by Jean Monnet who certainly did see it as only a first step in a chain that would ultimately lead to political integration .
9 And they are ambitious : while the job is regarded as important and worthwhile , it is for them , only a first step in a pollution control career , even though the present organizational structure of the agencies provokes anxieties about the limited prospects of promotion .
10 He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " .
11 The common Unix desktop that represents the present manifestation of the Common Open Software Environment , COSE , is just a first step on the road to a much more comprehensive common Unix environment .
12 There is always a first sentence in which the first phrase demands continuity , the second then providing repose .
13 But you know the old saying , there 's always a first time for everything . ’
14 He was being kind , she could tell , and not probing further , so she rewarded him with a rather watery smile , and said sententiously , ‘ There 's always a first time for everything . ’
15 At that time , Gore was still a first year at Bath University .
16 Now the Green Paper on Nationality , effectively a first draft of the law on nationality which is to be introduced in 1978 , confirms that the same concepts are to be retained .
17 It was also a first success for the drivers in the race and a particular personal triumph for ex-Formula One driver Warwick , who failed at the track with Jaguar in 1986 and 1991 .
18 Sein Winn was also a first cousin of the detained NLD leader , Aung San Suu Kyi .
19 At an uncertain date between late August and late September there was also a first meeting with a virtually unknown poet and radical called William Wordsworth , two years Coleridge 's senior .
20 In future it may be possible to bring out a first novel in paperback , and then once an author is established we could bring out his or her second and third novels in hardback .
21 There will be secondhand equipment sales in a boat jumble , demonstrations of equipment by Pyranha , Mobile Adventure , Ainsworth , Outdoor Leisure Supplies , Palm and Wild-Water , a film and slide show about a first descent in Nepal , a pig roast and a Bat and open canoe slalom with prizes from the manufacturers ( possibly a kayak for first place ) .
22 ‘ The All Blacks are inevitably nervous about a first Test at Christchurch , ’ added Fox .
23 We seem to see here a first concept of temple-decoration , the guardian symbols , beginning to give hesitant way to the idea which was to prevail : the devotion of temple-gables to narrative scenes from myth and legend .
24 More than anything else it has changed the public lifestyle of Catholicism for the ordinary churchgoer so that it is hard for the young actually to realize that thirty years ago Mass said wholly in Latin , including even a first reading of Epistle and Gospel , was simply taken for granted by most people .
25 Nevertheless , several of the experimental novelists mentioned above actually began their careers in the 1930s ; Samuel Beckett , Lawrence Durrell , Malcolm Lowry , Flann O'Brien and Jean Rhys each having published at least a first novel by the time Finnegans Wake appeared in 1939 .
26 Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners .
27 All regions have now drawn up at least a first round of projects for inclusion on the shopping lists .
28 This relates to a currently important limitation in fault diagnosis for technological systems where a first hypothesis about the cause of the problem can inhibit flexibility in considering other possible causes .
29 A number of US citizens were airlifted to Abidjan ( Côte d'Ivoire ) in mid-June when a first round of peace talks proved unsuccessful [ see below ] .
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