Example sentences of "then the first [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If the first criticism we read is of Shakespeare ( an Othello casebook , typically ) , then the first contemporary poe we come across is probably Ted ( ‘ a black — /Back gull bent like an iron-bar slowly ’ ) Hughes . |
| 2 | Suppose we have quarterly figures y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , y 4 , y 5 , Then the first 4-quarter moving average will be corresponding to a time point midway between the second and third quarters , and the second will be corresponding to a time midway between the third and fourth quarters . |
| 3 | Then the first sad thing happened . |
| 4 | Then the first human vessels were sighted , following the initiative of the Seraph Kajsa . |
| 5 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 6 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |