Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 2 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 3 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 4 | The therapist believes this problem is maintained independently of the client 's other problems and thus accepts this as the first goal for therapy . |
| 5 | Garden contains one of the first rockeries in Britain , which houses the earliest garden gnomes in England . |
| 6 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 7 | ROGER GANN FASTENS HIS SEATBELT AND TESTS SOME OF THE FIRST 33MHz PCs TO STORM ONTO THE SCENE . |
| 8 | Carlsbad , California-based Stac Electronics Inc is meeting the challenge of the built-in data compression in MS-DOS 6.0 , formally launched by Microsoft Corp yesterday with its own new Stacker 3.1 for Windows and MS-DOS : the company says the new version achieves new levels of safety and ease of use by taking advantage of special operating system features available for the first time in MS-DOS 6.0 ; when loaded , it replaces Microsoft 's DoubleSpace , and integrates the Stacker LZS compression into the operating system , and Stac claims that unlike DoubleSpace , which is based on data compression technology licensed from Vertisoft Systems Inc , $150 Stacker 3.1 is also fully compatible with earlier MS-DOSes . |
| 9 | Percivall , in his 1834 introductory lecture , says one of the first operations performed by Vial at the College was the excision of two redundant or accessory feet which grew from the fetlocks of the forelegs of a foal . |
| 10 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 11 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 12 | In between , Strachan showed his alertness again , running Nigel Worthington and John Harkes ragged in the first seconds after half-time to set up a simple header for Lee Chapman . |
| 13 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 14 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 15 | So , up we go the road narrows straight past the first left , there is n't a sign for Monkey Island at all . |
| 16 | The inevitability of death becomes real for the first time . |
| 17 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 18 | Lotus views this as the first step in providing intergroup capabilities for applications like spreadsheets . |
| 19 | Woodwind intonation is rank at the beginning of the Tristan Prelude and also makes much of the first Lohengrin Prelude a trial ; the Tannhäuser Overture is for the most part glorious , despite short-winded trombones , but like the Shostakovich Tenth Symphony it is marred by low hum on the recording . |