Example sentences of "[art] first and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 The first and most obvious question which can be asked is , why call the union between a man and an operated transsexual a ‘ marriage' ?
32 The first and most obvious change is to increase the duration of each exercise , but keeping the rest periods constant , that is 30 seconds ' exercise followed by 1 5 seconds ' rest .
33 The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page .
34 The first and most obvious extension of the wireframe model is through the addition of surfaces .
35 The first and most obvious reason is that the public differences between the major parties have indeed got less : there seems little point in attacking on areas of large agreement .
36 The first and most obvious point concerns the wide range of categories Poulantzas posits in order to capture the workings of capitalist formations .
37 The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task .
38 The first and most fundamental requirement of a rational expectations equilibrium is that expectational errors should be distributed around a mean value of zero .
39 The first and most basic thing we offer people is an opportunity to be creative , to explore their imaginative and creative talents which in prison , obviously , are largely stifled , ’ explains Alex Ford , Clean Break 's director .
40 The first and more straightforward classification is based on the contexts in which texts occur and results in institutionalized labels such as ‘ journal article ’ , ‘ science textbook ’ , ‘ newspaper editorial ’ , or ‘ travel brochure ’ .
41 The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month .
42 The first and least important distinction is between local and global sceptical arguments .
43 Jim received a first and thoroughly well-merited Testimonial in November 1980 , cruised past Terry Long 's previous club record of 442 League appearances in April 1985 and proceeded to notch up his 500th League game for us at Birmingham on 18 October 1986 , his 550th League match at Hull City on 19 December 1987 and his 650th overall ( ie : including major Cup ties ) upon the occasion of Oldham Athletic 's visit to Selhurst Park on 5 March 1988 .
44 Throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries the myth of a decline from former prosperity tended to conceal these limits and it was not until the 1890's that a first and very approximate calculation of her agricultural potential radically reversed the notion of a nation richly endowed by nature .
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