Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant .
2 The boat lurched as the first real waves lifted the bow and dropped it again .
3 Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf.
4 The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence .
5 At half-past ten , the sound of voices below the library window indicated that the first lesson of the day was over and that coffee was about to be served .
6 In January the same breakfast dish appears as a first course before the cold turkey and salad , the meal to be ended with English toasted cheese .
7 When the great moment arrives and the first prospective buyer appears , be as cool , calm and collected as possible .
8 The group laughed as the first strains of a Hungarian pop group wailed from the hall .
9 This process continues until the first person arrives back in the front .
10 The draft Approved Document also contains a provision requiring that the first occupants of a dwelling must receive instructions on how to look after the smoke detector system that has been installed .
11 But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana .
12 The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down .
13 The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed .
14 The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ .
15 She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress .
16 The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible .
17 Yet , when will he and others of like mentality realise that the first rule of the road must always be to give priority to unprotected people , whatever the circumstances ?
18 Faulty learning occurs because the first instances of it were inappropriately reinforced by the parents or other caretakers of the child .
19 The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling .
20 But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it .
21 The Middlesbrough Cycling News recorded that the first ‘ Smoker Night ’ was to be held ‘ in honour of one of its achievements in the cycling events . ’
22 The Securities and Futures Authority proposes that the first £5m of any levy on its members would continue to be raised on a weighted , registered persons basis , taking account of the amount of business conducted with private clients .
23 The game continues until the first player is back at the front .
24 If British Rail feels that the first stage of the channel tunnel rail link to Stratford and King 's Cross does not offer immediate opportunities for a freight route , there is something seriously amiss in its thinking .
25 Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs .
26 Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average .
27 It would be a basic mistake to assume that the first correct answer is the only one that exists , so the scientist will conduct further experiments , trying all the time to prove the hypothesis wrong .
28 IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other .
29 Remarkably , Halifax 's performance meant that the First Division leaders Wigan , 66-0 winners in a 12-try romp at Barrow , were not the day 's top scorers .
30 Seán Mac Stíofáin indicates that the first time the leadership discussed the civil rights movement was when
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