Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 32 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 33 | My arrival put paid to her travels — at least for the first couple of years . ’ |
| 34 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 35 | For some sections of the labour force , prosperous years which had begun in the 1780s continued at least for the first part of the war . |
| 36 | Cedric Thornberry , his civilian representative in ex-Yugoslavia , had some good news , at least on the first score . |
| 37 | However , it is probably preferable to send a copy of the terms with the document which refers to them , at least on the first occasion that the parties do business . |
| 38 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 39 | The implications are depressingly apparent in a study by Roberta Steinbacher and Helen B. Holmes which shows that young North American men and women who consider themselves sensitive to female inequality , would still choose to have male babies , at least as a first choice if sex-predetermination or sex determination with IVF would allow prospective parents in Western countries the opportunity to choose a preferred sex without the stigma that would be attached to using selective abortion . |
| 40 | In fact these can legitimately be regarded as fluorine ‘ lone pair ’ orbitals quite distinct from the bonding , non-bonding and anti-bonding MOs which are analogous to those found for H 2 O. Similarly , presents us with yet another increase in complexity , but the additional orbitals can be regarded , at least to a first approximation , as ‘ CF 3 group ’ orbitals associated with CF bonding or with F atom lone pairs , again superimposed on a basic set of ‘ skeletal ’ MOs analogous to those found for H 2 O. |
| 41 | It is hoped that Customs will keep to their original pledge of applying the rules sympathetically at least within the first year , and waive any penalties where it is clear that the taxpayer has done his best to comply . |
| 42 | Pam was there from the beginning , or at least from the first day of school . |
| 43 | Yet at least in the first two decades of this major shift in political life , faction was based on commitments other than the purely personal . |
| 44 | A limited contract for a few sessions , at least in the first instance , is always preferable . |
| 45 | So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it . |
| 46 | At least in the first stage of transition , there is no alternative other than a combination of the market and state regulation . |
| 47 | That is to say , there was , at least in the first quarter of this century , no well-developed rationalist alternative to theology or a simplistic materialism to explain mental life . |
| 48 | If at all possible , answer these questions in the first sentence of the release or at least in the first paragraph . |
| 49 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
| 50 | Soviet forces were not , at least in the first instance , to be withdrawn unconditionally . |
| 51 | Given that , at least in the first year of the new council tax , there will still be two-tier authorities in the shires , I hope that the Bill will be as tight as a drum to ensure that the tiered authorities that are not up for election do not use that freedom from the ballot box — as happened in Nottinghamshire with the poll tax — to wreck the council tax in the way that they wrecked the poll tax in its first year . |
| 52 | But is n't there a sense in which people in other countries really have to help themselves , at least in the first instance ? |
| 53 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |