Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 2 | for loss of or damage to property belonging to or held in trust by or in the custody or control of the Insured Person ( other that self catering accommodation where only the first £50 of any loss or damage is excluded ) ; |
| 3 | Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist ! |
| 4 | It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’ |
| 5 | Expansion or reformulation should be possible whether or not the first result is positive or negative . |
| 6 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Product at which the list will start . |
| 7 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Client at which the list will start . |
| 8 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 9 | Somehow we are sure that this is not the first diet you have ever bought , or indeed the first time you have tried to lose weight . |
| 10 | So , in the first place it 's selfish , second place , or maybe the first place , it 's unnatural and who are , who are they thinking about ? |
| 11 | Note that only the first kind of relational information , i.e. that on the speaker-referent axis , imposes intrinsic limitations on the ways in which such information can be encoded — namely in referring expressions , and morphological agreements with them . |
| 12 | One hopes that only the first group will inherit the earth . |
| 13 | Port Solent offers berth holders more than just the first class yacht sales and repair facilities of the south coast 's most prestigious marina , it also offers 24 hour access 365 days a year . |
| 14 | It has become a pure threat signal rather than just the first stage of an attack . |
| 15 | Jesus was and is the new Adam : not the unfallen Adam of innocent humanity restored , but the first of a redeemed and resurrected humanity — a greater and more gloriously human humanity than ever the first Adam knew . |
| 16 | The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and |
| 17 | She warned that even the first injection of hard drugs can kill . |
| 18 | The braguinha has four gut strings , although sometimes the first string is wire to give a more strident tone . |
| 19 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
| 20 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 21 | As previously stated , rural land cover was not an important consideration , and so the first component image was discarded , together with the last three , leaving components 2 , 3 and 4 . |
| 22 | And so the first memories is in the meadows of Nottingham , going to infant school about the age do n't remember starting , but perhaps I 'd be six years of age , and it was a little church school and they were all lady teachers and most of them Mrs and not the Miss which is nowadays er more common . |
| 23 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 24 | ( 10.68 ) It follows from this and ( 10.66 ) that , and so the first term in ( 10.64 ) must necessarily be included in these solutions . |
| 25 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 26 | ‘ But it is mite dung that people become allergic to , and so the first thing to get rid of is the dung . |
| 27 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 28 | The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn . |
| 29 | If only the first Artificer , rather than a modern architect , had pointed out that Less is More . |
| 30 | The organisers had to pay the travel bill of the poverty-stricken Fijians and , until literally the first day of the tournament , no-one knew whether the Russians would turn up or not . |