Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This enables the Bureau to find out at first hand how authorities are tackling the issue and what they need form the centre . |