Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 2 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 3 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 4 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 5 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 6 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 7 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 8 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 9 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 10 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 11 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 12 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 13 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 14 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 15 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 17 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 18 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 19 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 20 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 21 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 22 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 23 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 24 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 25 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 26 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 27 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 28 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 29 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 30 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |