Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept the empirical demonstration of the social determination of knowledge one first has to accept the postulate that knowledge is socially determined . |
| 2 | But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools . |
| 3 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 4 | The phrase ‘ interpretative paradigm ’ is used here as a shorthand description of newer theories of organization that first began to emerge in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | At a more general level , by the terms of the Treaty of Rome that first initiated the EC in 1957 , member countries are independent of their national governments and are not able to accept instructions from them . |
| 6 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |