Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 2 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 3 | Therefore , Coe and Hofland 's first prize was no longer valid as it was only sixth on unofficial lists , and Banks and Barry and Scott moved up to first and second places respectively on the Foreign Office list . |
| 4 | The girl 's eyes did not at first stray in my direction so I was able in safety to look at her , to examine her , for quite some time . |
| 5 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 6 | remind you that all money at the moment goes either to first which is n't quite so bad cos they 're family but a vast amount goes into and , both of whom have therefore access to our commercial sensitive , for want of a better term , information and we want to control that . |
| 7 | Secondly Table 6.1 shows that community service costs increased markedly between first and second assessment ( as one would expect , given that referral to the psychogeriatric service , even without the operation of the Home Support Project , is usually the signal for an assessment of home care needs ) . |
| 8 | MIPS BUSINESS DRIES UP IN FIRST QUARTER … |
| 9 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
| 10 | The clouds were parting and the moon showed dimly at first when the 12-pounder gun 's crew of cooks and stewards closed up aboard the destroyer . |
| 11 | In fact , the fog obliged the convoy to turn back at first , but it set out again later in the day and reached the Spanish mainland with little difficulty . |
| 12 | The M & S managers have long known and practised all this instinctively on their home ground : but that 's what happens when businesses move away from first principles . |
| 13 | INTEL P5 MICROPROCESSOR PUT BACK TO FIRST QUARTER 1993 |
| 14 | The metal yields easily at first , hardens somewhat and then breaks off in a brittle fashion . |
| 15 | Restrictions on silviculture in the tropics are most striking in the area of soil properties ; for example , the pisolites of parts of West Africa are some 10 m deep with no obvious horizons and , although trees grow well at first , they later collapse and the removal of the forest leads to desolation resembling a gravel pit . |
| 16 | ‘ So few people dress up for first nights these days … ’ |
| 17 | Well , we come off duty , we go on duty tonight at half past ten , and we come off at half past ten on Friday night , and we actually leave Didcot fire station at half five Saturday morning to get there for first light so we can make most use of the light , daylight hours . |
| 18 | The advent of the spinning jenny did not at first destroy home employment in spinning . |
| 19 | When told of Cavaletti 's initiative by the Italian embassy in Salamanca , Franco reacted favourably at first , but later began to raise objections . |
| 20 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |
| 21 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 22 | Despite his reputation , Modi behaved impeccably at first . |
| 23 | This road climbs moderately at first to Marbach , a well regarded unsophisticated winter sports resort with cablecar and skilifts to the Marbachegg sun-terrace ( Timetable No 1500 ) . |
| 24 | Cassie woke just after first light to hear the drone of their engines fading in the direction of the sea . |
| 25 | Do n't worry if your compression joints leak slightly at first — this happens to professional plumbers too . |
| 26 | Atlantis blasts off with first British male on board |
| 27 | The headquarters ' 38-set ( see Appendix 5 ) could not contact Ryder on the MGB and Newman did not at first realise how few men were ashore . |
| 28 | This enables the Bureau to find out at first hand how authorities are tackling the issue and what they need form the centre . |
| 29 | It would not have been difficult to fill this page with a glowing report based entirely on first impressions . |
| 30 | If the outside world did not at first grasp its significance , the Israeli leadership positively refused to do so . |