Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patient diagnosis ( KC60 code ) is collected in this survey and grouped into broad categories including acute sexually transmitted diseases ( such as gonorrhoea or a first attack of genital herpes ) . |
| 2 | Solicitor David Gamble was arriving for work when the first bomb exploded . |
| 3 | And then of course when the First World , World War came along , th a lot of cars were remade into ambulances and er then of course the lorries began to be , come into their own . |
| 4 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 5 | 3.3 THE PRINCIPLE OF CLOSURE AND THE FIRST SCEPTICAL ARGUMENT |
| 6 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's only rissoles , I 'm afraid , ’ said Alec , but if I felt a pang of disappointment that the first meal at his house was n't going to be out of the ordinary I was mistaken . |
| 8 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 9 | The only way to deal with that is to make coal a competitive source of fuel and the first choice for the generators . |
| 10 | Rose Shepherd goes on to argue that a first affair , usually based on attraction , leads to further affairs based on nothing more than boredom , loneliness , resentment , or the need for further boosting of confidence once the first extramarital partner has bowed out . |
| 11 | The pupils reported several different forms of unfairness but the first two to follow are perceived as the most striking in terms of devaluation . |
| 12 | At dinner we were offered a choice of menu and the first course was often a buffet with the main course served by waiters . |
| 13 | There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass . |
| 14 | No doubt the original buildings were of timber but the first stone church was built in the 12th century with an apse at the east covering the site of the saint 's grave . |
| 15 | And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow . |
| 16 | There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass . |
| 17 | Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman . |
| 18 | He knew very little of what had happened , had been out of touch since the first report had reached the Embassy in Rome and he had started running . |
| 19 | Allow a short period of silence when the first reading is finished . |
| 20 | It is a measure of the variability of taste that the first of these now seems one of Leapor 's least interesting poems . |
| 21 | This chapter will describe the course of fertility since the First World War , relate its trend to social and economic change , and discuss some of the differences in fertility within British society . |
| 22 | than the first flush of youth and the first lick of eyeshadow . |
| 23 | What she never admitted was that in the beginning , she had been terrified of this new mode of travel and the first few miles had been passed with her eyes tightly closed and her lips moving in prayer . |
| 24 | A similar contract was involved in Re Blyth Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. ( 1926 C.A ) , but in that case the vessel was already in course of construction when the first instalment was paid . |
| 25 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 26 | The contemporary evidence for the generation after Sidonius , that is the last decades of fifth- and the first of sixth-century Gaul , is largely made up of letter collections . |
| 27 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |
| 28 | Mildred into trouble before the first bell 's even rung . ’ |
| 29 | Going on down to the house with a posy of cowslips , she was aware of that rare feeling of happiness that comes with youth and the first stirrings of love . |
| 30 | Er yeah it is Stefan but because you know it 's the first one to come into leaf and the first one to shed , then possibly it will flower at a different time as well I would think and that may be the clue . |