Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the potential conflicts of interest are to be managed it is best for the business to specify first precisely what form of finance is required . |
| 2 | Both hulls were flooded , the water driving backwards and forwards across the saloon deck as the waves lifted first one hull , then the other . |
| 3 | At this stage the jargon is an obstacle in that anyone wishing to find out about the field has first to interpret the jargon . |
| 4 | Sieve them through the mouli having first strained off surplus liquid which would make the fool watery . |
| 5 | The cameras focused on him as he went to the back of the green to kiss first Midge and then Chris . |
| 6 | The Commission believes that the life and witness of the Church depend first and last upon the quality and vitality of its worship , and is convinced of its importance for the future . |
| 7 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 8 | Contains a recent history of the module , with the most recent version of the module shown first . |
| 9 | Contains a recent history of the module , with the most recent version of the module shown first . |
| 10 | One of the main objects of the occasion being to enable the many supporters of the Link to learn first hand from Mr Jim Coffey and his team how the results of their fund raising efforts have provided much needed aid in Romania . |
| 11 | Therefore , not only were the more skilled elements of the tasks robotised first to save the wages of the more highly paid skilled labour , but by using robots management could be more certain that a critical weld on a critical component was being done to specification . |
| 12 | Robot arms driven by digital computers can carry out instructions to , say , ‘ put a pyramid on the big block ’ even if successful completion of the instructions means first removing a small block from the big one . |
| 13 | University life had developed many of the traits Gedge first revealed while he was in the sixth form . |
| 14 | If having one 's voice recorded is considered an honour , invite the important members of the community to speak first . |
| 15 | The overview of the situation comes first . |
| 16 | A SHEEP that behaves like a hound won first prize for fence-jumping at the Kent Dog Show . |
| 17 | But if this colt was beaten today , he would certainly not be the first winter favourite for a Classic to flop first time out as a three-year-old . |
| 18 | That it impinged as a call to slaughter first and foremost seems only too clear ; for the first result of the preaching of the crusade was a fearful massacre of the one species of ‘ infidel ’ within easy reach . |
| 19 | Then , turning clockwise , with the head turning first , followed a split second later by the body , he raises his back ( right ) foot , all the time glancing over his right shoulder to watch his opponent . |
| 20 | ‘ The message from the Chief came first . |
| 21 | The text is entered directly from the keyboard having first selected its position between the staves with the mouse pointer . |
| 22 | The name ‘ flag ’ may originate from the plant having first been used as a heraldic device by Clovis , king of the Franks in the 5th century . |
| 23 | An order of report interpretation was considered an insufficient explanation by Bryden ( 1967 ) , who continued to find a right ear advantage even when analysing only responses given from the ear reported first , but such an explanation continues to surface from time to time ( e.g. Friedes , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe . |
| 25 | It looks very much as if the version in the manuscript came first and Purcell did some polishing before the piece was printed — in the treble clef , of course , with an eye to the market . |
| 26 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 27 | And there are no collectable power-ups to help you in the battle to shoot first and ask questions of the flaming wreckage later . |
| 28 | Figure 4 shows that there were no great differences between the two sectors in the ares ranked first or second . |
| 29 | Janet Tedstone ( 65 not out ) and Susie Kitson ( 35 ) shared a Test-best ninth-wicket stand of 99 in the rain-affected drawn first Test against New Zealand at Auckland . |
| 30 | Britain 's influence in the world depends first and foremost on the health of her internal economy and the success of her export trade . |