Example sentences of "and [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Yang Shangkun was removed from the politburo and as first vice-chair of the Central Military Commission ( CMC ) . |
| 2 | These District Land Registries accept responsibility for the registration of dealings and for first registrations of land within their allotted geographical areas . |
| 3 | The son of one of the Sheriffs of Glasgow , he lost his hearing at an early age and after first attending an ordinary day school , became one of the private pupils of the Headmaster of the Glasgow Institution . |
| 4 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 5 | In the last few decades the interest shown by social scientists in such evolutionary schemes has waned , notwithstanding the growing attention paid to problems of ‘ development ’ ; for the latter notion is not usually incorporated into any general conception of the history of human society , and despite first appearances is largely unhistorical . |
| 6 | A ceremony of Confirmation and of First Communion are inserted in the House Beautiful , and finally , in the most fundamental change , the pilgrims are enabled to cross the river and enter the Heavenly City by virtue of their acts instead of by their faith . |
| 7 | Infancy and early childhood are the time of basic sexual development ; pre-puberty — despite the " latency " concept — is the phase of accommodation to social thinking and relationships , and of first establishment of gender identity ; adolescence itself is marked by an upsurge of sexual feeling , establishment of sexual identity and — perhaps to an increasing extent — first true sexual experience . |
| 8 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 9 | Though the proportion of low birth weight infants decreases from very young maternal ages and from first birth order towards the prime childbearing ages and higher order births , it increases again considerably at later ages and from third and fourth birth orders ( Hungary , 1970 ; Selvin and Garfinkel , 1972 ; Chakraborty et al , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | In many developed countries , the weakening of traditions , particularly the transition of the family , the extension of female education and gainful employment , and the so called " sexual revolution " , have had as concomitants a rise in adolescent fertility , on the one hand , and in first births at advanced maternal age , on the other . |
| 11 | Stability tests on pilot batches and on first production batches should be carried out not only in the case of new products but also where there has been any change in the formulation of the product or in the source of the raw materials used or in the equipment used in manufacture or filling or in the method of manufacture or filing . |
| 12 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 13 | A bold , and on first acquaintance awkward , start leads to the corner which is well protected and followed ever more steeply to the crux at the top . |
| 14 | He and Mr. O'Brien were acquainted with one another and on first name terms . |
| 15 | The results of automated full blood counts ( both lowest documented and on first outpatient attendance ) and an assessment of iron store state ( with serum iron , total iron binding capacity or ferritin , or both ) were recorded . |
| 16 | When I approached and held a piece of chicken out to him he opened his eyes in surprise and at first refused to take it . |
| 17 | When Tikhon was placed under house arrest in June 1922 , one of these movements , the Living Church , was given numerous concessions by the regime , and at first looked set to take over the role and some of the property of the Orthodox . |
| 18 | And at first it was nice because there was more money coming into the house , and they could feed the gas monster and have hot water and fires . |
| 19 | Because it was an impermanent unofficial arrangement , the pairing family held no property and at first presented no threat to the communally held property of the gens . |
| 20 | It worked , and at first it seemed a perfect arrangement . |
| 21 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 22 | It was on this visit that Dana did something I found surprising and at first puzzling . |
| 23 | And at first it freaks you out . |
| 24 | The town centre hotels which were suggested were fiendishly expensive and at first I was told nothing else was available . |
| 25 | ‘ They have a very complex structure and at first sight they appear not to be connected in any way , ’ said Professor Mann . |
| 26 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 27 | It was led by French physicians and at first it simply confirmed the most pessimistic of common views . |
| 28 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
| 29 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
| 30 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |