Example sentences of "but [verb] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season .
2 Instead , the selectors opted for Peter Richardson , who silenced the critics by qualifying for Barcelona but suffered a first round knockout by Stone 12 months ago .
3 But writing the first edition in the midst of the Common Market discussions of 1972 , it seemed appropriate to remark that Britain decided some 200 million years ago to remain with Europe rather than depart with North America .
4 Your text and your paragraphs are indented by one tab stop but accept the first line .
5 The obvious candidate for such an intragenic NF-L element would be the strong hypersensitive sites HS5A and B. We therefore analysed the expression pattern of a human NF-L gene construct containing 300bp upstream promoter sequence linked to the rest of the gene but lacking the first intron strong hypersensitive sites ( HS5A and HS5B ) ( see figure 2 ) .
6 And if you 've got those skills apply to them job , I 'm not suggesting you do n't , but remember the first part of a , a tele , er a telephone or a face to face sales negotiation is , th th two of these and one of these .
7 It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first .
8 What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong !
9 But hearing the first movement again straight after the lugubrious Piano Duet Concerto ( see review above ) it sounded marvellous .
10 Deng did not make a public appearance at the congress itself , but attended the first plenum of the new central committee held on Oct. 19 .
11 But winning the first three of the five-match one-day series has supplied a crucial tonic at a time when TV pictures were being screened back live to Pakistan for the first time .
12 The fact that family circumstances gave the school-leaver little option but to take the first available work , and the highest paid , was appreciated by exchange officials .
13 We now iterate on A , but ignore the first two rows : unc We leave it to the reader to show that this converges quickly to 3 = 5 , x3 = { 1,0 , -1,1 } .
14 The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit .
15 At Oxford he lost his faith but gained a first at Balliol , in Law .
16 From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path .
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