Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the great moment arrives and the first prospective buyer appears , be as cool , calm and collected as possible . |
| 2 | Bulmer ( 1987 ) observes that the first official use of the term was in 1957 and was related to the field of mental illness . |
| 3 | Indeed , evidence already exists that the first meiotic metaphase is as susceptible as the second ( Development in Mammals , vol 1 , p 145 ) . |
| 4 | The Press Code further requires that the first printed copy of each issue be submitted to the Ministry of Interior which can then intervene to stop distribution . |
| 5 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 6 | Robert Olivier suggests that the first tame elephants may have been orphaned calves reared as pets . |