Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 2 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 3 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 4 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 5 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 6 | Sonorous For the first three months that Presentations 2.0 is on sale , it will come bundled with a SoundBlaster Pro sound card . |
| 7 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 8 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 9 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 10 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 11 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 12 | So it 's now we 've got seven people , it 's gon na make it a lot easier for the first twenty containers which is forty containers in actual fact is n't it . |
| 13 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 14 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 15 | The University Card can be used exactly like any other credit card , in particular the card is currently free for the first six months . |
| 16 | The incorporation catalysed by Dcm ( open circles ) was linear for the first 25 min of the reaction . |
| 17 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 18 | Clubs had agreed a deal with Central for the first two months of the season , but it was thrown into doubt after some clubs said they were n't getting paid enough . |
| 19 | Higher rate of SMP is payable for the first six weeks of her absence . |
| 20 | That covenant specifies the rent payable for the first five years . |
| 21 | SSP is not payable for the first three qualifying days in a PIW . |
| 22 | SSP will not be payable for the first 3 Qualifying Days in any PIW ; these are the waiting days . |
| 23 | First and second gear are nearly impossible to shift up and down , or from third to second for the first two miles in winter . |
| 24 | mean , presumably it 's quite easy for the first two or three weeks , it 's after , after a couple of months that er life gets more difficult . |
| 25 | Life was n't easy for the first Italian immigrants . |
| 26 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 27 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 28 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 29 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 30 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |