Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
2 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
3 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
4 | And last time they were involved in a shoot-out , against Notts County in the Zenith Data last year , they missed three out of the first four . |
5 | Moore 's England props , Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn , belatedly return for Wasps , at home to Blackheath , after being left out of the first two First Division games . |
6 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
7 | After the morning foursomes had been shared , Yorkshire took a firm grip on the proceedings when they won five out of the first six afternoon singles but then the young players took a hand . |
8 | The judgment in the case , Re Letters Rogatory out of the First Civil Court of City of Mexico , is badly flawed but was followed almost without exception for half a century . |
9 | James McConnell , one of the four out of the first seven who did not survive the war , wrote with foreboding : |