Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said you could always tell first thing what sort of mood Sir Emmanuel was in . |
| 2 | Similarly , it 's no good discovering that you are going to need an autocue and a slide projector when there 's no money left to buy or hire them , or that your guest speaker will only fly first class when you 've allocated £200 in your budget for his travel costs because someone vaguely remembered that £200 was the ‘ Apex fare ’ . |
| 3 | Tribunals will generally regard first hand evidence as more likely to be correct than second-hand evidence , but there is no general requirement that what the claimant says must be corroborated by another person 's evidence . |
| 4 | Mr Hennessy says the council will not allow First Leisure to change the use of the stadium . |
| 5 | Stolen cars are often offered for sale and if you buy one — even unwittingly — the original owner or their insurance company will usually have first claim on the vehicle . |
| 6 | A child 's use of the equipment may well reflect previous learning ; it may be imitative or imaginative , but will certainly provide first hand experience of using and organising everyday objects , together with opportunities for experiment with the way they behave . |
| 7 | In an M-tense system we can easily distinguish past ( events completed prior to CT ) , from present ( events whose span includes CT ) , from future ( events succeeding CT ) ; we can further distinguish points from spans ( Lyons , 1977a : 683 ) ; and we can also make first approximations to complex tenses like the Pluperfect , by representing events that are prior to other events , which are themselves prior to CT ( Reichenbach , 1947 : 288ff ; see also Allwood , Andersson & Dahl , 1977 : 121ff ) . |
| 8 | Tourists can now marvel first hand at the mysterious statues on Easter Island . |