Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have given Northern Ireland breathing space ; at 1–0 there was still a trace of anxiety in their play and Latvia , for whom Popkov and Charando had looked dangerous in the first half were never totally out of it . |
| 2 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 3 | Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding . |
| 4 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
| 5 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 6 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 7 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 8 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 9 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 10 | I ca n't undersa I ca n't understand how comes she 's got involved with the first ma guy to come along ? |
| 11 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 12 | The second must have got stuck at the first trees — or the driver had n't bothered to navigate the obstacle . |
| 13 | A Corporate Finance Engagement Letter should be obtained from every client for whom corporate finance activities are to be undertaken prior to the first engagement . |
| 14 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 15 | The gloomsters have been proved wrong on the first part of the operation . |
| 16 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |
| 17 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 18 | Nothing had gone wrong with the first two pregnancies . |
| 19 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 20 | While one cuts with the peat iron [ Tarisker ] , the other stands catching the foot-square slabs of wet peat which are thrown flat for the first stage of drying . |
| 21 | It would be a prime requirement that the airspeed and behaviour at the stall be determined prior to the first landing . |
| 22 | We have to pay the , er , ninety two , three percentages , which were fifteen point two per cent and nine point eight per cent , so there 's an additional element there , and also we have to deal with erm , the additional cash that goes to grant maintained schools , who went grant maintained prior to the first of April nineteen ninety-two . |
| 23 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |
| 24 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |