Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 2 | Now Witney Town are in action tonight in the first round , first leg of the Southern League Cup against Gloucester ; special guest tonight will be the Sheffield Wednesday manager , Ron Atkinson . |
| 3 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
| 4 | Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval . |
| 5 | If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim . |
| 6 | TWO SERB soldiers accused of war crimes went on trial yesterday in the first attempt by Bosnia 's Muslim authorities to bring alleged perpetrators of atrocities to justice . |
| 7 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
| 8 | Hawthorn took the lead early in the first quarter and the Cats then had to play catch-up . |
| 9 | The two sides will also be meeting again at the same venue tomorrow in the first round of the Augustus Barnet Cup . |
| 10 | For he later wrote the enigmatic poem To a Sea-cliff ( Durlston Head ) with its suggestion of estrangement even in the first year of their married life . |
| 11 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 12 | And bizarrely enough , the reason he began to take bottleneck seriously in the first place was due to a complete misunderstanding … |
| 13 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 14 | Canterbury beat CD twice in the first half of the competition , first by three wickets on a dubious pitch in the initial first-class match at Burnside Park , Christchurch . |
| 15 | GEI International , the packaging machinery and special wire and cutting steels manufacturer , lifted profit again in the first half of the year . |
| 16 | On the DEC PDP-10 computer , subroutine call instructions are provided for saving the return address either in the first location of a subroutine or in an accumulator ; but it also has call and return instructions which treat a specified area of store as a return address stack , in a manner similar to that described earlier in this section . |
| 17 | South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval . |
| 18 | Investment in mainland China continued to grow , with US$540,000,000 flowing to Fujian province alone in the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 19 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 20 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 21 | The Leeds midfielder Gary McAllister missed a penalty later in the first half during a frustrating spell for Scotland . |
| 22 | San Diego , California-based SAIC , responsible for porting HP 's Visual User Environment to alternate platforms as SAIC VUE , says it will have version 3.0 out on Sparc and RS/6000 machines by January followed by an Ultrix version later in the first quarter . |
| 23 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 24 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 25 | Derby took control in a devastating 12-minute burst early in the first half . |
| 26 | ‘ Our keeper picked the ball out of the net twice in the first half and did n't have much else to handle . ’ |
| 27 | Even Wallace 's goal late in the first half did not deflect their determination . |
| 28 | That in itself was an extraordinary development , because Nottingham had struggled in the scrum late in the first half and Northampton had dominated with nine successive put-ins in the second half . |
| 29 | And what on earth were you doing in that closet together in the first place ? ’ |
| 30 | He spat on my face once in the first year . |