Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has thereby taken the first step towards adult sexuality in developing a wish for a baby . |
| 2 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 3 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin appeared last night to have narrowly won a reprieve after the Russian parliament had voted overwhelmingly to take the first step towards his possible impeachment . |
| 4 | An appeal for funds has just raised the first £100,000 , enabling the Museum to further improve the facilities offered to the visitors to this already fascinating centre of British aviation and motoring . |
| 5 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 6 | News from France is that recent Peak immigrant Felicity Butler has just made the first British female ascent of an F7c . |
| 7 | Charles , who has just failed the first year of a law degree and is hard up , put up a notice on the fence : " Danger — Keep Out — No Liability Accepted . " |
| 8 | Cypress has just got the first silicon on the HyperSparc CPU , according to Electronic Engineering Times , and it 's reportedly almost completely functional . |
| 9 | Victorian doors THE Victorian Society has just published the first in a new series of information leaflets , Care for Victorian Houses : Doors . |
| 10 | Graham Taylor 's sidekick said : ‘ He has already achieved the first step by playing in the friendly against Spurs and it will be a very big step to get into a competitive game where there will be no quarter given or asked . |
| 11 | The Intor workshop has already produced a first broad proposal a definition of the envisaged plant and its objectives . |
| 12 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 13 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
| 14 | Corporate Wedgwood has also received the first order for its new Caspian pattern for Amberley Castle , Arundel — the only 900-year-old castle in the world which is used as an hotel . |
| 15 | Today he has also become the first man to drive across Langjökull , and the first to drive across Drangajökull . |
| 16 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 17 | Berkeley has now become the first nuclear power station in Britain to have all its spent fuel removed . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 19 | Coming soon are a new wetsuit and high cut trousers and Nigel has now finished the first sea kayak with another on the way . |
| 20 | Rob has recently completed the first leg of the Round the World Yacht Race . |
| 21 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 22 | Or you can SKIM , which involves just reading the first sentence of every paragraph and anything prominent or highlighted ( in this case , it is the general sense and flow of the book you are trying to absorb ) . |
| 23 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
| 24 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 25 | IMAGINE correctly predicting the first four horses in the Derby , and then not winning a penny . |
| 26 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 27 | The might of Gloucester beaten by bottom of the table , West Hartlepool , who 'd never won a first division game before . |
| 28 | This awful and we 'd actually got the first window here which is which is . |
| 29 | THE South African government , the African National Congress and its rival , the Inkatha Freedom Party , agreed yesterday to hold the first multi-party talks since all-race democracy negotiations broke down last May . |
| 30 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |