Example sentences of "[not/n't] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |
| 2 | It is for this reason that Professor Desmond Pacey correctly posits Leonard in his second category of Canadian poets , the socialist-realist group , of which Layton is ‘ the chief prophet ’ ; not the first , the mythopoetic group of Frye , Reaney and Macpherson . |
| 3 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 5 | Although Willem ‘ Wimpie ’ de Klerk , the President 's brother , was a member of the team , it is not the first time he has met Mr Mbeki . |
| 6 | The Deloitte fiasco is not the first big eight merger to fall apart and these ridiculous posturings must leave the clients , who are supposedly served by their auditors , completely baffled . |
| 7 | It was not the first time the 48-year-old comedian and doctor had pooped the party . |
| 8 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 9 | This is not the first or last case of over-statement . |
| 10 | This is not the first time nor the last that we encounter this influential organization . |
| 11 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 12 | He was not the first to do this . |
| 13 | This is not the first time that Vitelli has insisted to Clara that his sexual desire for her is conjoined with an equally strong desire to kill/ fuck her father ( and , now , her brother ) : |
| 14 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 15 | The first is that , contrary to what is implied in Harold Nicolson 's biography , Sir Herbert Samuel , who saw the King shortly after noon , was not the first to make the suggestion that there should be a National Government : the first suggestion came from the King himself . |
| 16 | Not the first words spoken , but from before the surfacing of memory she has known this . |
| 17 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 18 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 19 | It 's not the first delivery of food after a famine , but the scene suggests it could be . |
| 20 | Although Balcon was not the first to make films in Germany , he was the first to do so on a regular basis . |
| 21 | C : Aye , not the first nor the last you caused , neither . |
| 22 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |
| 23 | For this is not the first such episode . |
| 24 | This is not the first time in his career that Mr Bond , condemned for unconventional and perhaps sometimes dubious business tactics , has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 25 | But it is not the first case where an Australasian entrepreneur , hailed as a hero when things are going well , has found himself brought to earth with an ignominious bump when the going gets tough . |
| 26 | Maybe not the first tour but by the second tour , I think it began to get decadent . |
| 27 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 28 | This is not the first time Mr Gorbachev has shown his brutal streak . |
| 29 | This is not the first such row of recent times . |
| 30 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |