Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
| 2 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 3 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |
| 4 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
| 5 | Following the breakdown of talks with the 43-year-old Foreman , Bowe 's handlers are also considering a first defence against either of the ex-champions Michael Spinks or Michael Dokes at Madison Square Garden , probably in March . |
| 6 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 7 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
| 8 | Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise . |
| 9 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 10 | In the recent British Library publication , ‘ The Emergence of the Electronic Book ’ ( BNB Research Fund Report 46 , 1990 ) , we saw how handheld electronic reference devices based on chip memories were already foreshadowing the first true electronic books . |
| 11 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 12 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 13 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 14 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 15 | Nearly £35,000 in cash and £450,000 in cheques is believed to have been stolen from the administrator 's home following the first show on Saturday . |
| 16 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 17 | British Telecommunications Plc is now implementing the first Metropolitan Area Network in the UK . |
| 18 | In Europe , performance in France and Spain remains unsatisfactory , although it is now showing the first signs of improvement . |
| 19 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 20 | If carried , which is rare , the member has leave to present his Bill which is then read a first time in the usual way . |
| 21 | The principle of conservation of energy is sometimes called the First Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 22 | The steering group are currently writing the first draft of these standards of performance . |
| 23 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 24 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 25 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 26 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 27 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 28 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 29 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 30 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |