Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a second phantom chorus sings louder than the first . |
| 2 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 3 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
| 4 | It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low . |
| 5 | There must be occasional errors in the self-copying ; even the DNA system very occasionally makes mistakes , and it seems likely that the first replicators on Earth were much more erratic . |
| 6 | If it becomes obvious that the first private prison at Wolds , which is to be run by Group 4 , is a success , I hope that the burden on the prison system will be further lightened by the extension of private prison building and private prison management , certainly for remand prisoners as there can be no sensible objection to treating unconvicted prisoners better than convicted prisoners . |
| 7 | Some writers ( Musgrave and Musgrave , 1980 ) have put the two theories together , claiming that in the low range of income workers are motivated by the second effect , but later as basic necessities have been bought , and ‘ social ’ necessities too , then the trade-off between leisure and work becomes dominant and the first effect predominates . |