Example sentences of "[art] first and [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first and most crucial step in training children to be social beings takes place when they develop a willingness to do as they are told . |
| 2 | A short stroll amid the usual birches , boulders and close-cropped grass brings the first and most continuous section to hand . |
| 3 | Seabirds were the first and most visible casualties of the slick , with up to 20,000 estimated killed . |
| 4 | Micrografx Inc , one of the first and most prominent companies to endorse IBM Corp 's OS/2 2.0 operating system , is backing off developing OS/2 applications , US PC Week reports : ‘ There 's no demand for OS/2 applications , ’ said Paul Grayson , chief executive of the Richardson , Texas , company — ‘ We do n't see the rationale for making additional investments in OS/2 applications when there 's no apparent demand for the ones on the market . ’ |
| 5 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 6 | The first and most general cost has been to give the impression that Official Unionists would not be welcome in the Free Church . |
| 7 | This is reflected in the syllabus for the Institute examinations which are held at centres throughout the U.K. The first and most essential requirement of any student for any professional examination is that he or she must be able to communicate in the language ( in which he or she will be examined . ) |
| 8 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |
| 9 | And when the economy began to collapse and the political optimism of the 1960s and early 1970s began to tarnish , it was women who saw our jobs , our wages , our support services and our educational opportunities become the first and most serious casualties of the new depression . |
| 10 | The first and most critical stage in his exercise of power was the formulation of a " will " . |
| 11 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 12 | In the first and most quoted example of the genre , the Coventry-Solihull-Warwickshire study ( 1971 ) set the mould by using multiple regression analysis as shown in Figure 8.6 . |
| 13 | Estée Lauder 's latest launch , Time-Zone , looks set to continue this preoccupation with dry skin as one of the first and most uncomfortable signs of an ageing complexion . |
| 14 | The first and most striking thing about these figures is the sharp fall which they show . |
| 15 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |
| 16 | The first and most powerful image projector today is television . |
| 17 | The first and most powerful emotion was pride in what this moment meant for so many millions , and especially for their leaders , who had succeeded in making this return after 22 years of isolation conditional on the genuine opening up of cricket to all South Africans . |
| 18 | One of the first and most dramatic applications of rational expectations was to a flexible-price version of Friedman 's ( 1968 ) natural rate hypothesis . |
| 19 | Agreeing operational requirements is the first and most tiresome obstacle . |
| 20 | It connotes the discovery of the world by the first and most direct way open to us , and the discovery of ourselves in our native environment . |
| 21 | In my case , the first and most important candle stood for the dark forest . |
| 22 | The first and most important question to mull over as you gaze at your patch is : What is this garden for ? |
| 23 | If visiting or entertaining friends is difficult , this is the first and most important problem to be tackled , because maintaining ( or restoring ) this particular activity will do more than almost anything else to keep life in balance . |
| 24 | The first and most important change was the general introduction of cash limits . |
| 25 | Its key tenets are : 1 The customer comes first : The first and most important characteristic of total quality is the search continually to meet , and even exceed , the customer 's demands and expectations . |
| 26 | The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily . |
| 27 | One of the first and most important results of this change of emphasis was the work done by the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the mid-1960s . |
| 28 | The first and most important reason is that ketamine can readily induce a state of virtual helplessness , within the dose range normally taken by users , to a far greater extent than most other substances of abuse . |
| 29 | The first and most important thing is to talk to your doctor . |
| 30 | The first and most important step , therefore , was to give the orders to ensure a lessening of tension in the neck area so that the normal functioning of the Primary Control could be restored . |