Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it seems that the emotion of horror came first , and the dream was constructed to accommodate it . |
| 2 | In Europe the rate of accumulation peaked first in the early 1960s , then a decade later at a slightly lower level . |
| 3 | This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage . |
| 4 | The Auditing Practices Board 's The Future Development of Auditing suggested first steps in this direction . |
| 5 | The Maggot flew me back , because if we want to leave on Sunday morning then we 've got a heap of work to do first . |
| 6 | This complete , the body was further wrapped in fine velvet , a sheet of linen having first been placed between it and the cerecloth to stop staining of the finer fabric , and tied with silk cord . |
| 7 | we got four types of reaction using first H C L okay so write that in using first H C L then H N O three then H two S O four . |
| 8 | When the hobby of metal detecting first came to Britain in 1970 , few people could have foreseen how popular and successful it was to become . |
| 9 | This he had done , according to the story , by finding the weight of water displaced first by the crown and then by an equal weight of pure gold , the measurement being that of weighing the water displaced from a full bowl . |
| 10 | The idea of road pricing first surfaced in the early Sixties . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State had first to rule that the building was of outstanding architectural interest , which Michael Heseltine had done . |
| 12 | For example , where disrupters of a public meeting are themselves behaving unreasonably , and possibly illegally , there should be some sort of obligation to proceed first against the disrupters rather than the speakers , if that can be done . |
| 13 | The effective teaching of history requires first and foremost a healthy environment in which to flourish . |
| 14 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |
| 15 | It is significant that in ( David Raymond ) Smith the Court of Appeal had first to perform some surgery on the relationship of mens rea to the actus reus of criminal damage to reach the desired conclusion and it is therefore unsurprising that adverse comment was expressed by some of their Lordships in Morgan . |