Example sentences of "first [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used . |
| 2 | This is not , of course , the only or the first or the commonest use of the word ; we have borrowed it from people who believe in gods . |
| 3 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
| 4 | Newton was not the first or the only great scientific thinker of the time . |
| 5 | ( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) . |
| 6 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 7 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
| 8 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |
| 9 | He was n't sure whether the klaxon blared first or the perimeter floodlights snapped on , saturating the clearing with harsh blinding light . |
| 10 | She debated whether she would do the church first or the vicarage . |
| 11 | The first or the second ? |
| 12 | Lack of rigorous endoscopic criteria defining variceal haemorrhage such as those described by Buset et al , lack of standardisation for the time of entry , non-uniform management of the variceal haemorrhage during the whole study period , analysis of either the first or the recurrent episodes of haemorrhage and differences in patient sampling or variables recorded may all have a part in explaining the contradictions among some of the studies published on this matter . |
| 13 | Do you think you actually look at the words first or the picture first ? |
| 14 | Here the choice is still simple : either the first or the second syllable will be stressed — not both . |
| 15 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |
| 16 | Second song , first first or the second side . |
| 17 | His classmates started , started to curse erm to curse him and to humiliate him I think from the first or the second grade , and erm he was my friend , I had to , to fight for him . |
| 18 | C : Aye , not the first nor the last you caused , neither . |
| 19 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 20 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |
| 21 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 22 | The DTI says you are a company first and a charity next , but we say we are a charity first . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 24 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
| 25 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 26 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 27 | Should he get back into Oxford and try for a First and a Rugby Blue ? |
| 28 | Too many airchair critics who call themselves journalists have attempted to label Oliver Stone a paranoid and battle-scarred Vietnam vet first and a movie-maker second . |
| 29 | He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America . |
| 30 | Even an understanding husband may feel resentment if his wife is a mother first and a wife second . |