Example sentences of "be perhaps [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best stories , though , are perhaps the first , about a middle-aged bachelor farming alone after his mother dies , and the last , about a member of the village brass band picking up a woman on a bus trip to Venice . |
| 2 | Attlee was ecstatic about the idea of his viceroy staying on , perceiving it as ‘ a great boost for Britain and for the Commonwealth ’ , a sentiment shared by the now fully evolved Commonwealth statesman — he had been perhaps the first to see the possibilities of the role — General Smuts : ‘ This does not look like quitting ’ , he cabled to Attlee on hearing the news . |
| 3 | come on because it would have been perhaps the first time I suppose it would n't be a |
| 4 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 5 | The Greeks were perhaps the first to study the peculiarities of foreigners . |
| 6 | Whilst such an interpretation of three-dimensional spaces may create a slightly confused image when all three laminas are visible , it is perhaps the first step towards full modelling . |
| 7 | Though understanding is perhaps the first step . |
| 8 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
| 9 | James ( 1890 ) was perhaps the first to offer what amounts to an associative account of the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 10 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 11 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 12 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 13 | It 's , I mean he played very well DaSilva I think , but in a completely different mode to the first innings , he was purely set on trying to save the game , trying to battle with , I think he did n't bowl very well , had n't bowled very many short balls in the day and that was perhaps the first one he 's had to receive and er he was caught in two minds really . |