Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month .
32 Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree .
33 And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success .
34 Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement .
35 We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low .
36 We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade .
37 The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year .
38 The popes , as bishops of Rome , had a " genealogy " going back to the first pope , the apostle Peter .
39 Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot .
40 In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur .
41 because we get back to the first chapter , verse nine .
42 The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War .
43 Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time .
44 This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) .
45 A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War .
46 Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression .
47 Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ?
48 Where an applicant voluntarily left accommodation but had then acquired temporary accommodation , the courts interpreted the legislation so as to entitle the local authority to relate back to the first accommodation and so to find that he was intentionally homeless .
49 And talking about feet brings us back to the first step .
50 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
51 He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats .
52 But I 'd half-learned several languages on my travels , and somehow they each floated familiarly back at the first step on to the matching soil .
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