Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 2 | You may choose to use initials for something which is mentioned frequently or simply to write the first half of the word . |
| 3 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 4 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 5 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |
| 6 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 7 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 8 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 9 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 10 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 11 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 12 | We assume that graduates will do and say things in a considered way and not proffer the first thing that occurs to them . |
| 13 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 14 | And not to benefit the first marriage and not to benefit any of the children . |
| 15 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 16 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 17 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 18 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 20 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 21 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 22 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 23 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 24 | This chapter is written to help the reader to a more intimate knowledge of his law library , and also to guide the first steps of the research worker . |
| 25 | When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' . |
| 26 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 27 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 28 | The second generation of machines will be much more complex than the first , for it will include machines capable of repairing and even reproducing the first generation ! |
| 29 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 30 | He saw himself look back along the train and then remember the first premonition . |