Example sentences of "but the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting the people free took longer than anticipated , but the first casualties were those identity cards and the Festival site , in 1952 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They had six hours twenty minutes to survive , but the first hour of the last day saw five wickets crash for 78 . |
| 4 | Erm but the first year that I was in the |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Right but the first year I mean you wan na get the I 'm surprised |
| 7 | Yeah but the first year was , was an awful amount really |
| 8 | Talking of cats ( we were n't , but the first poem does ! ) — a pretty kitten from who-knows-where seems to have adopted us . |
| 9 | If he had an upset stomach , it was not something he had eaten , indigestion , but the first sign of a rumbling ulcer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Exactly how long Hughes lived at 94 Portland Street , London , is uncertain but the first experiments which led to the development of the microphone were conducted here during 1878–80 . |
| 14 | But the first try was a shambles , and I was caught . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 16 | You can not harvest a durian , but the first person to reach a fallen fruit , even on another 's land , may claim it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial were in interlocking ownership ; but the first Lord Rothermere , one of the founders ( in 1903 , when the Mirror was to be for women , edited by women — the women failed , and sacking them , the Harmsworths ' henchman said , was like drowning kittens ) had dispersed his shares on the Stock Exchange in 1931 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Torquay then pounded the Quakers with high and in-swinging balls , but the first goal on 13 minutes came from ground level . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The quality of being meaningful and unified , which the second passage has but the first passage lacks , is known as coherence . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | but the first runner Robin Bergstrand was 16 minutes further down the field … chasing the horse was hard work … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 . |