Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so the first thing we , as a crime prevention officer , we , well I look at anyway , is surrounding areas of a house that ca n't be seen from the road . |
| 2 | Right so the first thing you do if we 're dealing with a hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | Prior to the change in the law the relevant income tax provisions only referred to " income " ( ie there was only effectively the first limb ) and the House of Lords in Perry v Astor held that " income " following Colquhoun v Brooks [ 1889 ] 14 AC 493 , ( 1889 ) 2 TC 490 meant " any income chargeable to a tax under the British Finance Act of the year " . |
| 4 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 5 | So perhaps the first thing to say is that , as with the story , there is a considerable art of the pacing of humour . |
| 6 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 7 | Molly announces , holding out her glass for what is obviously not the first refill . |
| 8 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 9 | So here the first number , in this case nineteen eighty nine , is the date that the site was dug . |
| 10 | The reason why I have thought it to be so definitely a first edition is usually only because the title verso states : ‘ First published 19XX ’ or some such wording , and there is no mention about a second or third impression , or , because there was a date on the title page and a blank on the title verso ; or the title verso had only the copyright date on it . |
| 11 | In the quotation above only the first sense is intended by the author — the full potential of a word is never actualized entirely in any one of its uses . |
| 12 | He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ? |
| 13 | During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’ |
| 14 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 15 | Ian Rush fed the ball to Steve McManaman , who for just about the first time was decisive with his delivery , hitting the ball low across the face of the goal , and there was Walters at the far post to tap it in . |
| 16 | There you were , come to save our pathetic little radio station , and just about the first thing you did was scoop that concert in Harare , and at the height of the cultural boycott , because you 'd emphasised our independent nature . |
| 17 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |
| 18 | However , shortly afterwards the first meeting of a newly formed all-party Supreme National Council broke up in disarray after the members had failed to reach agreement on any issue . |
| 19 | I am of course old enough to remember the first railway made in England , and still more easily the first telegraph wires ; now we see people are not satisfied with these last , but must have telephone wires too . |
| 20 | As they turned into the straight on the first circuit Mill House , jumping like a buck , had the lead , with Arkle pulling hard in his wake and taking his fences superbly . |
| 21 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 22 | Well straight away the first thing he done was to put these new tables in , and that was his idea when he put these tables in to get more slate , and less wages . |
| 23 | Probably not the first choice of the new Labour arts minister . |
| 24 | Cleo concluded it was probably not the first time he 'd had to deal with a situation like this . |
| 25 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 26 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 27 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
| 28 | The interesting twist to this issue is that it was Japan , clearly now a First World country , and in the opinion of many now the most dynamic economic power , that was often identified in the United States and in Europe , as the worst offender , with the four East Asian NICs not far behind . |
| 29 | It is also reportedly the first Unix connectivity product built as an integrated service of the NetWare server . |
| 30 | We can see also how the first sentence has a second phrase using syncopation , which is a distinct change from the first phrase . |