Example sentences of "and [adj -est] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wash with the soap and ingest the drug . |
| 2 | Often local pubs serve as a base for the local community : as Neil Richardson pointed out in CAMRA 's Pub Preservation report of 1980 , ‘ The pub is first and foremost a social centre , the best ever invented … |
| 3 | It is the complexity which is first and foremost a social process , and within which the text was , and still is , implicated . |
| 4 | Marx was , as Engels stressed in his funeral oration , first and foremost a revolutionary , and so the importance which he attached to the study of pre-literate peoples , the traditional field of anthropology , might at first seem strange . |
| 5 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 6 | The new ‘ baby ’ BMW — the third edition since it evolved in 1975 — remains first and foremost a driver 's car . |
| 7 | But whatever the extent of anti-British feeling , the impatience was first and foremost a sign that the final peace showed no immediate signs of becoming reality . |
| 8 | Since Karajan was first and foremost a great musician , it follows that Karajan the film-maker is a man who helps transform our aural sensibilities . |
| 9 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 10 | A socialist , certainly , but first and foremost a Mitterrandist . |
| 11 | The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time . |
| 12 | The little tailor , as I have told you , was first and foremost a craftsman , and he stared in wonder at this beautiful model and could not begin to imagine what fine tools or instruments had carved and wrought it . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , within controlled limits and in certain circumstances , civilised life must provide room for a certain amount of transfer of that responsibility to the social and political structure , but human beings must never forget that parenthood is first and foremost a personal responsibility . |
| 14 | But , however special , it is first and foremost a workplace — in just the same way as a factory , a hospital , or school . |
| 15 | For anyone who still needs convincing that Craig is first and foremost a guitarist he quotes an incident that happened when the Y-Fronts got back together for a gig in Melbourne , during the time he was with Neighbours . |
| 16 | An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise . |
| 17 | However my worry is not first and foremost a medical one but a spiritual one . |
| 18 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 19 | But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station . |
| 20 | ‘ She is first and foremost a mother and she shares all their sorrows . |
| 21 | Dawn is very special to me , but I always have to remember that she is first and foremost a wild creature . |
| 22 | At a tete-a-tete recently with analysts and the press , Windows NT product manager , Dwayne Walker , said that although it can be used on a server , it was ‘ first and foremost a desktop operating system . ’ |
| 23 | At the same time he reflects the important belief that Ho Chi Minh was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist even though in his next sentence Moffat said ‘ He was also a communist and believed that communism offered the best hope for the Vietnamese people . ’ |
| 24 | He is free to consider himself first and foremost a participant in the nationally important business of the Bundestag . |
| 25 | The Profitboss steps in to defuse any fears about the organization , generating first and foremost a belief in himself a belief that he will fight for his people in the pursuit of profit , a belief that he will reciprocate their care and concern for the organization a belief that he will he trustworthy in his communications . |
| 26 | The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer . |
| 27 | The political significance the radicals assumed from the 1890s was first and foremost a measure of the close correspondence between their programmes and mass aspirations . |
| 28 | Ayliffe was thus first and foremost a Christian gentleman whose principal concerns were the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 29 | ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’ |
| 30 | The identities of the individual sections may well survive but each member of staff is first and foremost a part of Lothian Highways . |