Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communities which suffer most from crime are often the most disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 2 | He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued . |
| 3 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 4 | A full cognitive understanding of the constancy of gender across time , space and circumstances is not reached until 8 or 9 years ( Kohlberg 1966 ) , but gender reassignment is usually only possible in the first two or three years ( Money and Ehrhardt 1972 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 6 | A far broader question needs to be asked : Do we need this incredible amount of money spent on a minority culture when television in Scotland is so appalling in the first place ? |
| 7 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 8 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 9 | Tegulae are best developed in the Lepidoptera , Hymenoptera and Diptera , being especially large in the first mentioned order . |
| 10 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 11 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 12 | So Stuart began by telling a couple of jokes , which fell rather flat because he was so jumpy and I do n't think the jokes were much good in the first place . |
| 13 | So sixteen in the first block , sixteen for the third block and sixteen for the intervening block . |
| 14 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 15 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 16 | Looking at the audience , you may find that only those in the first five rows are alert and interested — the next five rows are straining forward , probably frowning , while the people in the back of the hall have given up and are doing their best to hide the fact that they are nodding off . |
| 17 | There was a palpable sense of excitement , dynamism , and innovation among the fundholders , especially those in the first wave . |
| 18 | They never wavered in describing the issue as extremely important for their voting decision : 64 per cent called it extremely important in the first week and 63 per cent in the last . |
| 19 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 20 | Owners have to be especially vigilant in the first few moments when the dogs are brought back together , and while they settle down to rest . |
| 21 | Border chose not to expose his all-seam attack , so ineffective in the first innings and in the recent draw with New Zealand , to the chance of further indignity . |
| 22 | When the French batted they could muster only 78 in the first innings . |
| 23 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 24 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 25 | I retreated into my shell , being painfully shy in the first place . |
| 26 | Er , after that people starting going on leave , is is anybody out away due in the first week in August ? |
| 27 | If the NBC Symphony 's virtuosity is already breathtaking in the first and second movements , then the finale is still more amazing in its precision , weight and attack . |
| 28 | In 1990 Tatra sold 10,000 trucks , but just 80 in the first half of 1992 . |
| 29 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 30 | Wimpey revealed that its building programme has slumped from 10,000 houses in 1986 to just 2,800 in the first half of this year . |