Example sentences of "first this " in BNC.
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| 1 | First this is held downwards , then it is swung upwards to varying heights so that you have a split second in which to hit it with a suitable technique . |
| 2 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 3 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 4 | Because of its advanced snow technology , it is America first this season . |
| 5 | Because of its advanced snow technology it is America first this season . |
| 6 | We have won four elections in a row — a first this century , ’ Mr Patten said . |
| 7 | At first this was arranged on a private basis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tail first This is the most common landing in the learning stages and provides a much softer option to the flat landing . |
| 12 | At first this left me speechless , but after a while I began to ask ‘ Why ? ’ |
| 13 | At first this might sound a little too simple — or a clever exit from responsibility — but if thought about can be seen to be true . |
| 14 | Suggest several reasons why first this town and then the whole conurbation have grown in size ? |
| 15 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 16 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 17 | At first this was a slow process but as the group got bigger the church planting gained in momentum . |
| 18 | Unwins have an intriguing first this year with ‘ Creation ’ , the first F1 hybrid shallot to be grown from seed . |
| 19 | At first this was forthcoming , social stability mattering for more than religious principle , but the next forty years saw a growing split in the ranks of the Sussex leaders as Puritanism spread and the remaining Catholics came under suspicion for their dual allegiances . |
| 20 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 21 | At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends . |
| 22 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 23 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 24 | The Route Impériale was laid out by Napoleon , the First this time , for strategic rather than aesthetic purposes , but it is a delight , a quiet , curly road along a ridge with long vistas of farms and moor land to the east , and of more farms , villages and cultivation to the west . |
| 25 | At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts . |
| 26 | Alice held her flamingo 's body under her arm , but the flamingo turned its long neck first this way and then that way . |
| 27 | It had been a long , tiring day … first this big house to be cleaned , then the uphill trek to church and Sunday service ; next came the lunch , which took hours to prepare and only minutes to devour ; this was followed by the inevitable mountain of washing up . |
| 28 | At first this might be a mixture of music , dance and drama , in a regular ‘ children 's slot ’ . |
| 29 | Though at first this is quite hard to do , it does come with constant practice . |
| 30 | If at first this proves too difficult , an alternative method of grabbing the ankles may be substituted until the area becomes more stretched and flexible with use . |