Example sentences of "that the [noun] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was annoyance when it was learned that the claims had first appeared in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal , both prominent business dailies , not refereed scientific journals . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure that The Correspondent came first , no I 'm not sure that anybody came first . |
| 3 | New Yorkers will tell you that the surname comes first on the cabbie 's ID . |
| 4 | But analysts pointed out that the credit had first been announced in the second quarter of last year . |
| 5 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 6 | It was during that holiday that the notion had first come to Melissa of setting a novel in the region . |
| 7 | T.R. Shipping believed in the motto that the customer comes first . |
| 8 | Assuming he was murdered , assuming that the murderer went first into the kitchen , then he could have crept back silently and attacked Berowne from behind . |
| 9 | It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again , and remind ourselves that the replicators come first , in importance as well as in history . |
| 10 | Weighing these factors and the circumstances of the case , including the pending change in the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany on the matter of discovery requests from abroad , the court held that the balance favoured first resort to the Convention . |
| 11 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |