Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take one from Women 5 Weekly and rewrite the first three paragraphs for Playboy . |
| 2 | Monie , who has led Wigan to a record three consecutive Challenge Cup and Championship triumphs , said : ‘ The proposal to play County Cup matches pre-season and increase the First Division to 16 clubs is crazy . |
| 3 | Listening and speaking ; Lado ( 1964 ) explains that this approach to language teaching considers listening and speaking the first task in language learning , followed by the mastering of the reading and writing skills . |
| 4 | On the following evening , her plan laid , Joan again found an excuse to retire early and put the first part of the scheme into action . |
| 5 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 6 | He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 . |
| 7 | Her independence and organizing ability had been displayed early when she joined the Girl Scouts in 1909 and formed the first Bournemouth troop of guides . |
| 8 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 9 | While the morphology of the single crystals grown from dilute solutions may be more regular and resemble the first model , for polymers that are crystallized from the melt ( and this is by far the more important procedure technically ) the mass of evidence tends to favour a form of the switchboard model . |
| 10 | When she was five and did the first sale , I was so proud of her . |
| 11 | new marriage , new spouse intestacy rules , spouse is the nearest and gets the first lot so it presumes that having got married you want that spouse to have what you 've got . |
| 12 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |
| 13 | He was a Cambridge blue during the years 1888–90 and won the first of his thirteen caps for England playing in the match against Wales in 1890 while he was still at university . |
| 14 | Aunt Lilian and Aunt Kit walked into the nearest shop whenever their clothes became too shabby and bought the first thing that fitted them ; if they debated , it would only be about a garment 's staying power . |
| 15 | President Franois Mitterrand , answering viewers ' questions in a television appearance yesterday , warned against writing off the Socialist Party as dead and said the first aim must be to reunite it . |