Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 2 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 3 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 4 | If nobody damn well tells them in the first place that they can opt out then they ca n't opt out can they ? |
| 5 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |