Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 2 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 3 | In assessing how much is spent on domestic output we add the first four items . |
| 4 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 5 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 6 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 7 | At the same time we find the first attempts to develop certain overseas areas as specialist producers of such exports to the ‘ developed ’ world — indigo and jute in Bengal , tobacco in Colombia , coffee in Brazil and Venezuela , not to mention cotton in Egypt , etc . |
| 8 | In the Montagu declaration we see the first official glimmer of an idea which exercised a vast and perversely inspirational influence on the process of imperial disintegration : the idea of the multiracial Commonwealth . |