Example sentences of "to first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
| 2 | ‘ It is worth emphasising that a return to first principles of traffic safety for children does not give support for the abolition of shared space ’ approaches in favour of either ‘ Radburn'-style pedestrian-vehicle segregation … nor a return to Roads In Urban Areas ’ styles of design with relatively wide , fast roads in residential areas ’ |
| 3 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 4 | Two percentages are shown in each case : one relates to first responses to the question ‘ Do you like … ? ’ and the other to all responses . |
| 5 | ( Groom 's speech , replying to first toast to bride and groom , a longer , humorous speech . ) |
| 6 | Stairs rising to first floor with exposed timber bannister . |
| 7 | UPVC fully double glazed front door , stairs to first floor with understairs storage , with gas meter , incorporating cloaks cupboard , double radiator , power points . |
| 8 | It is always wise to first check with the recipient the colour scheme of the room in which the picture will be displayed , as it is possible to vary the emphasis placed upon the colours within the picture accordingly . |
| 9 | The aircraft will fly , be certificated and delivered to first customers in 1996 . |
| 10 | The gift could vary from pigeons , to cereal offerings , to first fruits of the harvest , to very expensive sacrifices like a goat , a lamb or a bull . |
| 11 | The effect of the relative velocity v of the source frame away from the external observer is to give a fractional change in frequency ( to first order in v/c ) . |
| 12 | A description that covers both cases is to say that geodesics are stationary paths ; this means that any small deviation of path from a geodesic produces no change in the length to first order in the deviation . |
| 13 | to first order in ζ , is where the connections and their differentials are all evaluated at x . |
| 14 | To first order in h , ( with no summation over i ) . |
| 15 | The integrand can be expanded to first order in : . |
| 16 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 17 | Open Saturday before Easter to first Sunday in November , 10am to dusk or 8pm . |
| 18 | eg. ( SELF , UP , DOWN ) would cause the model to first look at the user who caused the last transition for a possible match , followed by a search up the user tree and then down the tree . |
| 19 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 20 | European shareholders have ‘ pre-emption rights ’ which entitle them to first call on secondary offerings ; and underwriting is common practice for new issues , too . |
| 21 | It gives Universal the rights to first refusal on all Lee 's projects as writer , director , producer and actor and everything developed by his 40 Acres And A Mule company . |
| 22 | John Gordon and Derek Davis also received cheques as runners up , together with Rex Wolfe as Manager of the Northern Area , who beat the Southern Area to first place with the highest sales figures . |
| 23 | Leading woman rider Alison Dare , who took her tally of winners to 11 at the Heythrop on Tuesday when Le Kingdom was promoted to first place after finishing a head behind Green Archer , will also be at the Portman . |
| 24 | In Stockport Labour jumped from third to first place in terms of votes cast , and in Leeds it added almost 10% to take its share to over 55% . |
| 25 | Such then was the equipment and the ethos with which the Brewery faced the 50 years of violent growth which lifted it by 1914 to first place in the world league . |
| 26 | Ratners , the jewellery chain attempting to re-establish its former prominence , jumped to first place from seventh in April , while BT slipped from the top slot to No 7 . |
| 27 | That 's not at all bad , but expect time to first print to be longer for highly graphical subjects . |
| 28 | The head , the deputy and the school secretary have to put together the information which can lead to first comparisons on the basis of the Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 29 | Louise , supervisor in the customer service department at International Paints in Canada , and Bob backflipped their way to first prize in a rock , n , roll dance competition in Montreal . |
| 30 | A parallel descent to first causes in the latter half of the poem locates a different underlying prime mover : |