Example sentences of "but the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incidence of wage queries has certainly reduced since summer , but the first test of the improvements made will be during the next up-man which is due in early 1993 . |
| 2 | They had six hours twenty minutes to survive , but the first hour of the last day saw five wickets crash for 78 . |
| 3 | Erm but the first year that I was in the |
| 4 | It 's not possibly to be obvious to say you write an estimate of financial communication , but the first year against the should say this is brought up for review . |
| 5 | Right but the first year I mean you wan na get the I 'm surprised |
| 6 | Yeah but the first year was , was an awful amount really |
| 7 | Talking of cats ( we were n't , but the first poem does ! ) — a pretty kitten from who-knows-where seems to have adopted us . |
| 8 | If he had an upset stomach , it was not something he had eaten , indigestion , but the first sign of a rumbling ulcer . |
| 9 | But the first evidence of abstinence from pork is absence of pig bones among the bones of cattle and sheep at Egyptian neolithic sites dating from about 4400 BC . |
| 10 | The Mill was officially opened by the Lord Provost Sir John G. Banks on 13th April 1956 but the first vessel to discharge , Rochester Shipping Co . |
| 11 | But the first try was a shambles , and I was caught . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 13 | You can not harvest a durian , but the first person to reach a fallen fruit , even on another 's land , may claim it . |
| 14 | It was quite a crush but the first circuit — left on to Orchard Street and all the way round Selfridges , then Oxford Street as far as Marylebone Lane and then Wigmore again — went off without serious injury . |
| 15 | To fasten one 's emotional seat-belt is not easy but the first consideration — that of the old person 's needs and wishes-has to be kept constantly in mind . |
| 16 | Torquay then pounded the Quakers with high and in-swinging balls , but the first goal on 13 minutes came from ground level . |
| 17 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 18 | and it 's a , an old fashioned music hall , more often than not well when we went it was a pantomime but the first part of the evening was an o a music hall |
| 19 | Now Somerset is a long way away , but the first stopping place that they can find where they will be left undisturbed for a few days is in the Vale , and very shortly the Vale will be designated , so they 'll have to travel even further into west Oxford , which is going to be , if we 're not careful , the only undesignated district in the whole of the south of England , and I would n't want to be a resident of west Oxford in these circumstances . |
| 20 | The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence . |
| 21 | ‘ Ideology ’ is an indispensable term in sociological analysis , but the first level of difficulty is whether it is used to describe : ( a ) the formal and conscious beliefs of a class or other social group — as in the common usage of ‘ ideological ’ to indicate general principles or theoretical positions or , as so often unfavourably , dogmas ; or ( b ) the characteristic world-view or general perspective of a class or other social group , which will include formal and conscious beliefs but also less conscious , less formulated attitudes , habits and feelings , or even unconscious assumptions , bearings and commitments . |
| 22 | These are not named , but the first mill is next to the hamlet of Wotton St Mary , the second is in the hamlet of Barton St Michael and the third , nearer Upton . |
| 23 | De Niro 's directorial debut , Tales Of The Bronx , is schedule for early 1991 , but the first film his company has planned is a comedy in which he will co-star with Danny De Vito . |
| 24 | but the first runner Robin Bergstrand was 16 minutes further down the field … chasing the horse was hard work … |
| 25 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 26 | No doubt the original buildings were of timber but the first stone church was built in the 12th century with an apse at the east covering the site of the saint 's grave . |
| 27 | But this is a delicious disc , containing not only a winning performance of Beethoven 's early Septet but the first recording of a trifle called Hymn to the Veneration of the Great Joachim . |
| 28 | the store is the sixth to trial the new style , but the first opening where staff have swapped dungarees and ties for polo shirts , sweat shirts , culottes and skirts . |
| 29 | Various dates ranging from 1850 to 1870 have been suggested for its inauguration , but the first newspaper report , in the Craven Herald , was in 1882 . |
| 30 | But the first generation did not see their opportunities as restricted : migration itself was an optimistic move . |