Example sentences of "so [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A far broader question needs to be asked : Do we need this incredible amount of money spent on a minority culture when television in Scotland is so appalling in the first place ? |
| 2 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 3 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 4 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 5 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 6 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 7 | So sixteen in the first block , sixteen for the third block and sixteen for the intervening block . |
| 8 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 9 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |
| 10 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 11 | So one of the first things many of us seek to find out about other people is what they do . |
| 12 | So one of the first issues to be resolved , as Steve Heath , director of 88open operations in Europe sees it , is to define the ways in which different compilers interpret source code and how , in turn , operating systems use different compilers and compilation techniques . |
| 13 | So one of the first issues to be resolved , as Steve Heath , director of 88open operations in Europe sees it , is to define the ways in which different compilers interpret source code and how , in turn , operating systems utilise different compilers and compilation techniques . |
| 14 | And it 's So one of the first thing to do is to get your axes marked so that when you 're putting stuff in , you know which is which . |
| 15 | It was a laugh of happiness and male conceit , and I was so pleased by the first that I did n't mind the second too much . |
| 16 | Border chose not to expose his all-seam attack , so ineffective in the first innings and in the recent draw with New Zealand , to the chance of further indignity . |
| 17 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 18 | I was so excited by the first decent piece of gold ever found , that a test I once read about came into mind . |
| 19 | Ah well , her parents were old now , and retired , and nobody thought them funny any more : indeed , it was only the intensely conventional world of a Yorkshire boarding-school that had made them seem so eccentric in the first place . |
| 20 | The business of travel is vital to the economic survival of such countries , but as the numbers of tourists and travellers increase , a compromise has to be reached between the identity of the host country and the ‘ golden hordes ’ of tourists which threaten to swamp it and destroy the very characteristics which make it so attractive in the first place . |
| 21 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |