Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will probably correctly object that this theory of mine seems to get things round the wrong way , and that even if we grant my argument that growth in the power of the state detracts from that of the individual 's superego , there is every reason to suppose that in most cases the total power came first , and the deterioration in personality , however we like to describe it , later . |
| 2 | But it was in Cropper 's and Roscoe 's home town amongst liberal men of religion that agitation of the economic arguments had first substantially begun . |
| 3 | The English team batted first and mustered 117 , thanks mainly to C.B.K. Beachcroft , the Exeter opening batsman who made 23 , and F.W. Cuming , who top-scored with 38 . |
| 4 | Erm market demand will take the easier site to develop first . |
| 5 | The 84-year-old actor came first in a survey which asked Americans : ‘ If you wanted to buy something , who would you want to sell it ? ’ |
| 6 | The outermost limits came first — the sky , with a pale shine of overcast through the bare branches of the trees . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman asked first why the assessment credit , the skill check credit , is not to be made available to unemployed people . |
| 8 | It is touching but rather embarrassing that after the film the rest of the people waited for the foreign quests to leave first , and clapped us when we went out . |
| 9 | Finally , Malcolm Fraser , ex-editor of the Standard and of the Daily Express became first honorary press adviser and subsequently was employed to run the press bureau at the colossal salary of £1,200 . |
| 10 | In the jump-off Ratina went first and faultlessly again , but Beerbaum , without needing to ask the eight-year-old Classic Touch any desperate questions , won by more than three seconds . |
| 11 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Although in the event the old lady died first , towards the end it looked as if she would need to be taken in by one of her descendants and this caused distinct tension : ‘ we had least room and everything — and least money ’ , but ‘ there was a bit of squabbling in family . |
| 13 | In assessing the situation , and planning her interaction , the social worker aimed first to get Mrs R. to modify her behaviour , without success . |
| 14 | The dawn ride alone with Jacques Devraux through the breathtaking natural beauty of the tropical forest had first heightened the pleasurable feeling of pent-up excitement that had been growing within her in recent days , then eventually left her feeling tense and on edge . |
| 15 | Check that the l.e.d.s connected to the lowest outputs flash first and that the display rapidly ‘ decays ’ when the sound stops . |
| 16 | The individual organism came first in the biologist 's consciousness , while the replicators — now known as genes — were seen as part of the machinery used by individual organisms . |
| 17 | For this , a miniature stair set was built and the actual fall filmed first , using the outside plastic skin of one puppet with the armature removed and replaced by shot for added weight . |
| 18 | When the barriers and checkpoints between the three sections had first appeared . |
| 19 | The hard men came first , then the softly spoken and sympathetic type . |
| 20 | As the last in , Peter Wilson becomes the natural choice to go first . |
| 21 | Right , I think it 's the left turn to go first . |
| 22 | Modifying Freud 's understanding of the human agent means first that he is trying to understand the attempt of human beings to place some order on to the natural and social world under conditions of ‘ time-space distantiation ’ . |
| 23 | He even managed to get an extension of the unpopular excise to cover first wine , then alchohol generally . |
| 24 | They are returning the stare in the hope of forcing the powerful Serbs to blink first and let them leave . |
| 25 | The present paper looks first at the general context of the discussions within Ashdown School and then outlines some of the issues that emerged from the research . |
| 26 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 27 | may also have the give way sign on invert inverted triangle on the carriageway , you must be ready to let traffic on the major road go first . |
| 28 | Scientists are divided about which of the great apes evolved first from the Proconsul line . |
| 29 | A crucial factor had been the tighter safety regime introduced by the regulatory authorities following first , the notorious 1975 fire at the Brown 's Ferry plant , and then the 1979 Three Mile Island accident . |
| 30 | It may well be that the smaller powers benefit first from the new defensive technologies . |