Example sentences of "[v-ing] first [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living first in the silence after the viaticum . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | There has been an advantage in looking first at an exercise because its very ‘ task ’ orientation often makes the structure explicit , whereas in group drama one has often to look for it . |
| 5 | All it contained were the table and two wooden chairs , one of which Hall now gripped the back of , looking first at the policeman then at Scott . |
| 6 | Looking first at the mechanism of the separation process ( a ) ; in simple terms , the large molecules , which occupy the greatest effective volume in solution , are excluded from the smaller pore sizes in the gel and pass quickly through the larger channels between the gel particles . |
| 7 | It continues the examination of the behavioural determinants of demand , by looking first at the role and significance of social class . |
| 8 | He has to practise using buses and trains , perhaps going first with the carer , then with the carer following , and finally on his own . |
| 9 | 22mm hot water supply pipe leading off the vent pipe and going first to the bath hot tap |
| 10 | Turning first to the tendency to produce relatively less plural references under the mixed condition , it is possible to analyse the effect in terms of the different effects which name and noun descriptions might have . |
| 11 | It is turning first to the Oracle Corp Financials world , a niche market , it admits , but one that has helped nurture the rapid growth of database server companies like Sequent Computer Systems Inc . |
| 12 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 13 | They were in the habit of calling first at a petrol station , and using the air line to blow their tyres up really hard . |
| 14 | I began my career hand-setting lead type for printing on Adanas and treadle presses before moving first into the world of computers and then journalism while Jim , my co-director , had spent some 34 years with British Airways looking after the production of their timetables from data bases . |
| 15 | When pointing first by the baby to draw the attention of another person to an interesting object . |
| 16 | The Captain filled the space provided for him , speaking first to the Consul General . |
| 17 | And if they keep on coming first past the post … they 'll be queuing one hundred deep for a place in the winners enclosure with their very own favourite |
| 18 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 19 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 20 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 21 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |
| 22 | Dealing first with the control side of things , the clock pulses are generated by IC1 , a simple CMOS astable using a 4001B quad NOR gate i.c . |
| 23 | On the day of the shoot , competitors start by shooting at butts ( targets ) and the winner has the privilege , later in the day , of shooting first at the papingo . |