Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This blood and tissue loss is called menstruation and the day that this menstrual flow starts is traditionally the first day of the menstrual cycle . |
| 2 | Though understanding is perhaps the first step . |
| 3 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 4 | The awe I felt was probably the first phase of hero-worship — the sort of thing some people call a crush . |
| 5 | Deciding which manuals to supply was just the first of a chain or decisions . |
| 6 | In either case , the line thus calculated is only a first approximation , and will be tuned up , as we shall see in the next section . |
| 7 | This is a weak test because an invitation to interview is only the first stage of selection . |
| 8 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 9 | I also remember meeting Johnnie Cooper , then a subaltern , but a long serving ex-N.C.O. who had been probably the first man recruited to the infant regiment by David Stirling . |
| 10 | He had been right the first time . |
| 11 | He had been almost the first to express his belief in the certainty of a future Labour Government . |
| 12 | Attlee was ecstatic about the idea of his viceroy staying on , perceiving it as ‘ a great boost for Britain and for the Commonwealth ’ , a sentiment shared by the now fully evolved Commonwealth statesman — he had been perhaps the first to see the possibilities of the role — General Smuts : ‘ This does not look like quitting ’ , he cabled to Attlee on hearing the news . |