Example sentences of "first that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fra Troys boundis first that fugitive , |
| 2 | Notice first that Condorcet , writing in the spirit of the Enlightenment , proposes to apply the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences to the study of human beings . |
| 3 | At first that change was gradual but it soon accelerated . |
| 4 | Hollywood was scared , not simply because of the threat to personal life and limb , but by the implications being meted out in the press which followed two distinct inferences : first that Polanski through his and his dead friends ' involvement with drugs had brought this tragedy upon his own house , and , second , that the ‘ new ’ Hollywood in general must accept some guilt through its current fascination with violence , drugs , sex and the lifestyle of what appeared — in the eyes of the establishment — to be a mortally sick section of society . |
| 5 | From this it can be concluded first that Aristo interprets the dispositions as trusts . |
| 6 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 7 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 8 | The first that Tarmac knew that the union disapproved was when the present proceedings were commenced . |
| 9 | At first that fight was an uphill struggle . |
| 10 | Much of the heat has by now gone out of these arguments , and it is fairly generally accepted , first that college librarians should be appointed on teaching scales and given academic status by nature of their work , and secondly that the work of a college librarian implies the librarian 's own active participation as a librarian in the college 's educational programme . |
| 11 | The Manwarings ' family notified the police days after the murders , fearing at first that father and daughter might have been kidnapped . |
| 12 | Lentricchia 's argument was quickly endorsed by Terry Eagleton who claimed first that poststructuralism represented a ‘ hedonist withdrawal from history ’ ( aestheticism ) and , a year later , that it amounted to a more menacing holocaust-like ‘ liquidation of history ’ . |
| 13 | Two things about the Chief Fire Officer 's review have largely escaped attention , the first that fire brigade vehicles will ( happily ) continue in the traditional red . |
| 14 | Suppose first that investment in the nationalized industries simply displaces private investment ; resources used by British Rail are resources no longer available for investment projects in ICI or Shell . |