Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind , the research proceeds by first constructing and estimating a multi-technology diffusion model . |
| 2 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 3 | ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine . |
| 4 | We can not pinpoint the exact time that property passes without first classifying the contract . |
| 5 | The characteristic network structures of these different types of community are also relevant to the manner in which change may come about , in so far as urban growth tends at first to weaken strong pre-existing rural networks . |
| 6 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 7 | The scheme proceeds by first identifying the elements of communication , as follows : |
| 8 | The system works by first analysing a page to identify column numbers and to mark out graphics and images that can not be processed . |