Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary shivered and turned away as the first clods of earth thudded onto the coffin . |
| 2 | It was then , just as the first signs of Arab flexibility appeared , that in Israel the notion took root that the renunciation of ‘ grand designs ’ was erroneous in its minimalism . |
| 3 | The tape on the bus was changed to ‘ choochie ’ accordion music just as the first streams of passengers jostled their way to the buses . |
| 4 | We arrived just as the first eggs were hatching . |
| 5 | To be a Christian means actively to follow Jesus Christ in faith , just as the first disciples of Jesus did . |
| 6 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 7 | I flattened to the street just as the first shots were fired … |
| 8 | The auditory word detectors are activated by input from a spoken word , and an essential aspect of the model is that this activation begins as soon as the first sounds in the word are heard . |
| 9 | The day 's preparations will begin early as the first newsmen get into position . |
| 10 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |