Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 2 | It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’ |
| 3 | Expansion or reformulation should be possible whether or not the first result is positive or negative . |
| 4 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Product at which the list will start . |
| 5 | Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Client at which the list will start . |
| 6 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 7 | Somehow we are sure that this is not the first diet you have ever bought , or indeed the first time you have tried to lose weight . |
| 8 | So , in the first place it 's selfish , second place , or maybe the first place , it 's unnatural and who are , who are they thinking about ? |
| 9 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
| 10 | The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him . |
| 11 | As previously stated , rural land cover was not an important consideration , and so the first component image was discarded , together with the last three , leaving components 2 , 3 and 4 . |
| 12 | This corresponds to a 1 symmetry , and so the first overtone of a b 1 vibration is an a 1 transition . |
| 13 | ( 10.68 ) It follows from this and ( 10.66 ) that , and so the first term in ( 10.64 ) must necessarily be included in these solutions . |
| 14 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 15 | ‘ But it is mite dung that people become allergic to , and so the first thing to get rid of is the dung . |
| 16 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 17 | The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn . |
| 18 | The comedy-writer Statius Caecilius was a Celtic speaker by birth , an Insuber from northern Italy ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1838 , p. 138 Helm ) , and apparently the first writer the proud city of Milan ever produced . |
| 19 | How was Norway Chamberlain 's fault and not the First Sea Lord 's ? |
| 20 | For statistical reasons and because of the ever changing pattern of pedestrian and vehicular movement at treated sites and elsewhere the first Plan argued for an annual ‘ gross ’ target reduction of 60 casualties . |
| 21 | There was , indeed , found to be a greater right field advantage in verbal ability and thus the first hypothesis was supported . |
| 22 | Labour council leader John Williams said the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate and High Row was long overdue and just the first step in a town improvement strategy . |
| 23 | Victor Atanasie Stanculescu , hitherto National Economy Minister and once a First Deputy Defence Minster under Ceausescu , was immediately appointed as the new Defence Minister . |
| 24 | Once the primary movements have been learned — the stances , kicks , punches and blocks — and also a first kata , a new student is required to take an examination , called a grading . |
| 25 | During this period Meldola discovered the first oxazine dyestuff ( Meldola 's blue ) , and also the first alkali green ( viridine ) . |
| 26 | That was n't what you said , that was n't what you said , and probably the first person to put your granny in a home . |
| 27 | He was the first to recommend skiing as a sport to the Norwegians themselves and probably the first man to ski in the Alps . |
| 28 | Paula was amazed by the security arrangements that were necessary to ensure that the new season 's collections remained exclusive — the windows at the rear of the premises were heavily barred and practically the first thing she had to do on commencing her employment was to sign a contract promising that she would not breathe a word about the designs she saw . |
| 29 | And now the first STV general election is being held , the voters in the polling booths are busily writing 1,2,3,4,5 … instead of marking the customary X , and the sun is shining . |
| 30 | Pallister survived a traumatic start at Old Trafford to win FA Cup and European Cupwinners Cup medals , and now the First Division championship is within United 's grasp . |