Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Krashen presents a range of evidence supporting this hypothesis from first and second language acquisition work . |
| 2 | Only six of the side that began the Test against France last month appeared yesterday , but this mix of first and second teams still ran away against the English divisional champions . |
| 3 | For those aged 65 + only women aged 65 — 74 years show this decrease in first admission rates ( see Figures 7.7 and 7.8 ) . |
| 4 | We might try to approach an answer to this question by first looking at some specific features that characterise the identifying references to different kinds of topics of discourse . |
| 5 | Those with this type of first language may see the result as a tendency for native English speakers to talk around the subject instead of making black and white statements and decisions . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's have this mask off first , shall we ? ’ |
| 7 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 8 | I put this frill on first |
| 9 | Let us investigate the behaviour of this model by first considering the manager 's problem in the absence of a constraint imposed from above . |
| 10 | hold on , let's put this box in first , let's get this out , right |
| 11 | It must be said , however , that it is extremely unlikely that a clearing bank would announce a change in this way without first getting the view of the Bank as to the desirability of the change at that particular time . |
| 12 | Consider now an arithmetic expression written in a high-level language like Algol or Fortran , for example A compiler for a computer with an array of accumulators would translate it into a form such as The compiler performs this translation by first transforming the original into reverse Polish notation , where each operator appears after its operands , in this case ( see , for example , Randell and Russell 1964 ) . |
| 13 | waxing to , well not necessary to build it up , cos you , you 've got this sealer on first you see |