Example sentences of "but [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the information ( and more besides ) could be obtained from the company itself but generally the first step will be to Companies House . |
| 2 | Or , finally , two events are cause and effect if the probability of the second event , given the first event and certain accompanying conditions , is greater than the probability of the second event , given those conditions but not the first event . |
| 3 | Our research methodology is to proceed in stages ; this paper does not present the whole story but just the first step in the argument . |
| 4 | In the immediate post-conciliar phase ( 1966 – 7 ) , Rome remained not far off the avant-garde of progress , but once the first round of directives was complete and the curia firmly back in control , the conservative tendency regained the upper hand in the centre while progressive tendencies were still growing stronger in many a periphery . |
| 5 | Deutsch has also made arrangements with King 's College Cambridge and the Society of Authors , acting on behalf of the estate of E M Forster , to renew and continue publication of the Abinger Edition of E M Forster , which will include not only some of the earlier works , but also the first publication of material contained in the King 's College Forster archives . |
| 6 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 7 | But even the first child can throw a low-income family into poverty . |
| 8 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 9 | But then the first son dies leaving a son and the second dies childless . |
| 10 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 11 | But actually the first part of it |