Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one hand she held half the soap with the embedded dragon in high relief , its tiny green wings minutely scaled , its long head thrusting forward and its tail descending to the soft nobble which had first appeared . |
| 2 | This was not to be a matter of mark-books and tests but a freely managed regular assessment which depended first on the subject-teacher but which took in the view of everyone who had dealings with each individual pupil . |
| 3 | In the early stages of a book I always write out two things : one , the plot , that is , the murder and how it happened and perhaps how eventually it will be seen for what it is ; two , the story ( which to make what I mean even clear to myself I generally label " The Storyline " ) , that is , in very rough outline what happens first and what happens next and next and next . |
| 4 | They had allegedly made millions of dollars in the 1980s by borrowing from BCCI to buy and sell shares in the holding company which owned First American , but on Sept. 11 both men , appearing before the House Banking Committee , denied any knowledge of secret control by BCCI . |
| 5 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 6 | In the first place , The Exchange 's rules require that the authority to dispense with an offer of pre-emptive rights shall not last beyond the expiration of 15 months or until the next annual general meeting whichever occurs first . |
| 7 | Ponds , marshes and mires fill the hollows , alternating with higher ground which emerges first from under the snow and dries out in the course of summer . |
| 8 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |