Example sentences of "first [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They strike blows in normal initiative order , and attack first during a charge , exactly like other warriors . |
| 2 | The first for a Recycling Centre will open on the fifteenth of April , nineteen ninety-one , at Garden Place , Girton , when the Mayor Ivy Mission will launch the scheme at eleven o'clock , by breaking an empty champagne bottle on the front of the first glass recycling skip . |
| 3 | Went down the pub first for a drink . ’ |
| 4 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 5 | THE Spanish general election on June 6th is the first for a decade in which the result is not a foregone conclusion . |
| 6 | The rise , the first for a year by United , is 4pc in line with inflation . |
| 7 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 8 | If Alison Wilding wins the Turner Prize this autumn it will be another first for a woman . |
| 9 | FIRST FOR A BANK LOAN |
| 10 | When they returned to London , Clare worked first for a bank and then for the Yugoslav tourist office before joining the BBC monitoring service at Caversham . |
| 11 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 12 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 13 | He then added his own slapstick comedy , each night diving head first through a serving hatch and generally being thrown around . |
| 14 | Black involvement in athletics had continued in the inter-war period , first through a Guyanan , Harry Edward , a prodigious sprinter who was interned in Germany during the war , but returned to England taking seven AAA sprint titles in the 1920–2 period . |
| 15 | Deeply attached to it , he served it first as a scholar , obtaining first-class honours in both parts of the historical tripos ( 1933 and 1934 ) ; second , as research fellow ( 1938–45 ) , receiving a Ph.D . |
| 16 | Try one first as a test . |
| 17 | He had sent one first as a test , for sometimes it does n't do the doors a lot of good , and you find you 've wood of a variety of types and colour — indicating the door was never meant to be seen in the raw . |
| 18 | My Fellow Tablers , I will never ever forget how proud I was to say those words , Fellow Tablers , my first as a Tabler after being inducted some thirteen years ago . |
| 19 | Every business is designed : first as a concept then as an operating system . |
| 20 | He graduated with honours in science in 1870 , and followed his father into the Civil Service , first as a clerk and then in the legal department . |
| 21 | This is the most famous of all ancient circular temples and , first as a temple , and later as a church , has been in continuous use since its building . |
| 22 | First as a reporter for Du , and then on missions for Schweizer Spende , the Swiss relief organisation for victims of the war , he was thrown into a Europe of ruins and displaced persons . |
| 23 | First as a winger , then as an out-and-out striker , he played an immensely valuable role in the Palace sides of the later years of that decade , culminating in the promotion team of 1969 , in which he was the top scorer with 14 goals , while his five 1st Division goals in 1969–70 were only improved upon at the Palace by proven striker Gerry Queen . |
| 24 | As the moon moves round , part of its illuminated face becomes visible , first as a crescent and then swelling through a half moon into a gibbous shape . |
| 25 | Over the next few years he gained considerable administrative experience , serving first as a member of the household of Archbishop Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] and later as warden of the priory 's Essex manors and as treasurer for two terms . |
| 26 | When this ended , he set himself up first as a portrait painter . |
| 27 | First as a diplomat , later as Foreign Minister in 1959-66 and then as Chancellor he shaped the foreign policy priorities of post-war Austria . |
| 28 | Within two years , he had joined the payroll , first as a PPS , then as a junior whip . |
| 29 | In the two year prior to instituting of the 1½ litre formula in 1961 , the Cooper-Climax , driven by Jack Brabham , swept all before them as the Australian installed himself as one of the all-time greats , first as a driver , and later as a constructor . |
| 30 | Instead he went to work for Famous Players-Lasky , first as a subtitle writer and then as a screenwriter . |