Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 2 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 3 | Also important is the limited availability of alternative sources for retailer 2 once the first agreement is signed . |
| 4 | The sense of moral crisis and social discontinuity reflected here was deeply characteristic of late Victorian and Edwardian society , and from the late 1890s until the First World War there was a flood of such accusations against the youth . |
| 5 | The policies of the Grand Coalition were planned after August 1967 , by leading CDU and SPD members meeting in the ‘ Kressbronn Circle ’ ( so-called because the first meeting was held in Kressbronn whilst Kiesinger was there on holiday ) . |
| 6 | Whereas it was hoped that this would be brought to the Council by the end of November , it may now be into 1993 before the first draft is presented to the Planning and Development Committee . |
| 7 | After all Stonehenge was thousands of years old before the first bus-load pulled up . |
| 8 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 9 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 10 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 11 | If advertising is as old as the first caveman who scrawled " Bonzo is the greatest Caveman " across a cave wall , then public relations must have started before Mankind learned to write . |
| 12 | One of the major tasks of this chapter , then , will be to examine the different aspects of gender relations in contemporary Britain in some detail , to see if the conditions under which women live are as rosy as the first set of writers suggest , as unchanged as the second school of thought has argued , or some complex mixture of change and continuity . |
| 13 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 14 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 15 | For example , the first syllable of ‘ poetic ’ is more prominent than the first syllable of ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 16 | No bomb was found after a search of the ground with tracker dogs and when the game eventually started over a hour late , both teams , level at 1–1 after the first leg went at each other in an explosive start . |
| 17 | Intimidating , but not as much as a first meeting with the famous former amateur captain , Brian Sellars , who gave a severe look and a scornful : ‘ Na'then , you little Welsh bastard . ’ |
| 18 | If this move is sound , our second sceptical argument attacks the notion of justified belief at least as much as the first argument does ; in fact even more , because it is more global . |
| 19 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 20 | They were , if that was possible , even more ferocious than the first time he had kissed her . |
| 21 | It will be at least three times larger than the first show , held last year , and will represent every area of self build , from finance to land plots , as well as house design ‘ packages ’ and most related building and interior products . |
| 22 | We will describe a basis as alternating if the first row contains one basic variable ( which must be a 1 ) and the remaining rows contain two basic variables ( a 1 and a 0 ) . |
| 23 | This is most likely as frightening as the first time you prayed out loud . |
| 24 | And this was applicable where the first accommodation was in another country . |
| 25 | So the second pulse then , is mu it evokes a much weaker current than the first pulse did . |
| 26 | ‘ We spent a lot of time recording it and it is a lot better than the first album . |
| 27 | Most date from the Old and Middle Kingdoms , and were already ancient when the first tomb shafts were sunk at Thebes . |
| 28 | And hence the feeling in nineteen fourteen when the first world war broke out that it would er all be over by Christmas . |
| 29 | This meeting , seen by many as the first step towards a united Europe spanning East and West , is … ’ |
| 30 | It was a carbon-copy deed , just as terrible as the first time . |