Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] first " in BNC.

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1 Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) .
2 Some anti-NSF demonstrators rushed the cordon of tanks and troops around the NSF headquarters , and fist fights broke out first with soldiers and then with rival demonstrators .
3 APR 1993 At the first TOP Surgery Allan Paterson met team leaders to find out first hand the progress of their teams .
4 In a multi-electron atom , the lowest energy shells fill up first .
5 In the second half they pushed and pulled Bristol apart … the pack worked like a steamroller … and produced 4 tries … hooker John Hawker went over first
6 But the service had looked at 18 areas and applied a Home Office computer to determine which fire station turns out first to a fire .
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