Example sentences of "but [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season . |
2 | But writing the first edition in the midst of the Common Market discussions of 1972 , it seemed appropriate to remark that Britain decided some 200 million years ago to remain with Europe rather than depart with North America . |
3 | Your text and your paragraphs are indented by one tab stop but accept the first line . |
4 | The obvious candidate for such an intragenic NF-L element would be the strong hypersensitive sites HS5A and B. We therefore analysed the expression pattern of a human NF-L gene construct containing 300bp upstream promoter sequence linked to the rest of the gene but lacking the first intron strong hypersensitive sites ( HS5A and HS5B ) ( see figure 2 ) . |
5 | And if you 've got those skills apply to them job , I 'm not suggesting you do n't , but remember the first part of a , a tele , er a telephone or a face to face sales negotiation is , th th two of these and one of these . |
6 | But hearing the first movement again straight after the lugubrious Piano Duet Concerto ( see review above ) it sounded marvellous . |
7 | Deng did not make a public appearance at the congress itself , but attended the first plenum of the new central committee held on Oct. 19 . |