Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oregon combination of technical expert opinion and public participation was at first seized on with enthusiasm by many NHS managers as a means of legitimising rationing decisions . |
| 2 | The Roman response was at first somewhat sluggish . |
| 3 | The Central Committee was at first unsympathetic but on 10 October , at a meeting which Lenin attended , it was resolved to make armed insurrection the order of the day . |
| 4 | At the local level , sanitary reform was at first hampered by the chaotic diversity of different local bodies ( Flinn 1969 ) . |
| 5 | In the West the personal name is in first position but in the old Communist states the interests of the state are paramount , and those of the individual last in line . |
| 6 | The extraordinary background of this veiled beauty is at first revealed only in hints and large generalisations as Ayesha woos Leo Vincey as her reincarnated lover , and the story was not extended significantly until thirty-six years later when Rider Haggard indulged his passion for Ancient Egypt and for the occult by giving Ayesha a family and a local habitation in Wisdom 's Daughter . |
| 7 | There were , however , two new fields of research ; galvanism ( as use of electrical current was at first termed ) and mesmerism . |
| 8 | The overestimation of estimated risk is at first sight surprising , both because the common assumption that an underestimation of true risk might be a major cause of road accidents ( e.g. Evans , 1991 , ‘ among the factors contributing to drivers ’ speed choice is a systematic underestimation of the probability that they will be killed ’ , p.152 ) and on the basis of previous research on the estimation of risks . |
| 9 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 10 | The new church was at first served from the cathedral . |
| 11 | The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is at first sight a much simpler kind of formation . |
| 12 | The city or suburban dwellings of the new class were at first too small to accommodate the extended family . |
| 13 | The reader will probably reply that the question is quite otiose because it is obvious that , as Freud himself pointed out , the oral region is of first significance in a new-born baby 's life , the anal zone is significant later , especially with the coming of toilet-training , and the phallic period is last merely because it is only later that increasing awareness of the genitals and the ability to manipulate them and perceive the persons of the parents causes Oedipal phenomena ( which are synonymous with the phallic period ) to come to the fore . |