Example sentences of "[adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhetorically , it was the time of the great horticultural images of education , derived perhaps first from Rousseau and reinforced by Froebel , for whom the child was the tender plant growing in the garden , the kindergarten . |
| 2 | ‘ I should perhaps first say that I was tripping . ’ |
| 3 | It has also been acutely pointed out that the title ‘ philhellene ’ , which was perhaps first given to Alexander I by writers of the fourth century , actually implies a denial that he was Greek . |
| 4 | You ask me to marry you , perhaps first to seduce you . |
| 5 | The new postmodern sensibility was perhaps first given systematic articulation by the critic Susan Sontag in the middle 1960s . |
| 6 | The skald Thorleif Rauthfeldarson has him bloodying swords in England with God 's help , and he was eventually buried , perhaps first in York Minster , but later in a church at Roskilde , according to the Encomiast in a tomb which he had prepared himself . |
| 7 | Perhaps first off , I could give you all , er , you 've all filled in one of these evaluation sheets before on a course have n't you ? |
| 8 | But in the short term , in other words , the instant burst of speed , I hope anyway , can come from both of them , but I can see it coming from Andrea perhaps first . |
| 9 | The present site was apparently first recorded about 1939 and Aldershaw was deserted in 1947 . |
| 10 | He was the son of a club professional in the Midlands , and had apparently first swung a golf club when he was about three . |
| 11 | Remarkably , Feigen has managed to assemble enough first rate examples ( several from museums ) to make yet another look at this seventeenth-century Emilian master worthwhile . |
| 12 | Half-way up they met Pipkin , who was small enough first to let them pass and then to turn round and follow them . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose that you will be gracious enough first to tell me how you arrived here , and secondly to allow me to take you home before you end up in another alley . |
| 14 | If you have n't read any books about the Wideawake Mice read this aloud first . |
| 15 | Their Hayashi range was researched and developed in Japan and contain only first class ingredients in precisely balanced formulations . |
| 16 | Only first divisions in each lineage were counted to allow comparison between experiments . |
| 17 | At present , the text recognition system employs only first level information . |
| 18 | : At present the semantic analyser uses only first level information . |
| 19 | Only first conceptions as a result of artificial insemination were used for the analysis . |
| 20 | The size of a semi-empirical calculation is thus much less than that of an ab initio calculation for the same molecule , even if only first row elements are concerned . |
| 21 | Only First Division players are involved in a ballot this week , with the result announced on Friday . |
| 22 | Oh it 's only first names anyway |
| 23 | It 's only first |
| 24 | The sound quality is quite as impressive as Levine 's full-price version , which is otherwise an obviously first choice . |
| 25 | He had the worst of all Test baptisms , in 1975 ; went further into his shell when heavily criticised for touring South Africa in 1982 ( a £25,000 libel settlement from the sun a compensation ) ; and found country captaincy too much first time round . |
| 26 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 27 | The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale |
| 28 | Besides what happens if Rocky goes and then Strach gets injured , who do we have as cover in the midfield — Hodge , he 's hardly played much first team footballer and his whilst his goal scoring skills are fine he is not in the same class as Rocky or Strachan . |
| 29 | There were n't used much first I started just seaweed and dung . |
| 30 | On March 15 , at the closing Congress session , Anatoly Lukyanov ( hitherto First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet and thus de facto First Vice-President of the USSR — see p. 36660 ) was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet by 1,202 votes to 682 , defeating seven other candidates . |