Example sentences of "[adj] first [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the crucial first step in this process . ’ |
| 2 | The row over what Labour would do with the water industry is a graphic first flare-up in that debate . |
| 3 | Now that this book is so readily available one suggests as a required first question in any PhD oral in astronomy , ‘ Have you read The Realm of th1 Nebulae ? ’ |
| 4 | It has , after all , been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory . |
| 5 | A penalty goal apiece were the only scores of a scrappy and disjointed first half with neither back division able to escape the attentions of the opposing back rows . |
| 6 | Reviewing current materials is a good first step for any re-evaluation of approaches to education . |
| 7 | A study of the nature of the phenomena under investigation is , therefore , an important first step in any research study . |
| 8 | It was May 's enthusiasm for pottery , which he communicated by publication , and Bushe-Fox 's perception of its importance for dating deposits that helped towards the artefact-orientated reports so common in that first half of this century . |
| 9 | He 'd timed that first drive with such care . |
| 10 | But once he or she takes that first drink in any day there is no prediction of when that drinking bout will stop . |
| 11 | Mervyn Eastman helps launch our campaign by examining the thorny problems of defining elder abuse , an essential first step for any agency or worker |
| 12 | Not only had Yolland been deceived about the BCR 's intentions at Stretford Bridge ; he had also failed to realise that the need to reverse trains at Lydham Heath made tender first running on some part of the line inevitable , whether or not there was a turntable at the lower end of the railway . |