Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 2 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 3 | The weakness of both the holistic and individualistic approaches is that they are both in their different ways incapable of explaining the origins of phenomena ; yet it is the origins which are of first importance in understanding human psychology and society . |
| 4 | Britten combines this with a highly resourceful method of linking and transforming themes , so that ideas which are at first simply pictorial take on a psychological meaning in the story , or vice versa . |
| 5 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 6 | I see now that a child knows these things intuitively , including those things which are at first beyond its own experience . |
| 7 | In eighteen thirty one Charlotte was sent to the , to Roe Head School at Murfield She was at first homesick , but eventually carried off three prizes . |
| 8 | This was Albrecht Ritschl 's The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation , which came out in three volumes between 1870 and 1874 and launched the movement which was at first called ‘ the Ritschlian theology ’ , but is now generally labelled ‘ Liberal Theology ’ . |
| 9 | We will illustrate fourth normal form by looking at a relation which is in first normal form and which contains information about modules , lecturers and text books . |
| 10 | The iron pricker which was at first common was replaced by brass or copper . |
| 11 | The eldils , the angelic beings who are at first invisible to Ransom , and their hierarchic sense of obedience are introduced gently . |
| 12 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
| 13 | I had started at the Royal College of Music , and the atmosphere there was at first hostile to volunteering . |
| 14 | To some extent he was at first exonerated from confronting them with this reality by grants of papal crusading tenths , sexennial ones levied on the clergy only , authorized in 1274 and 1291 , and yielding about £20,000 annually . |