Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 2 | Around 200 people were killed in the six weeks of election campaigning , and nearly 200 on the first day of voting . |
| 3 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 4 | ‘ It was only the second long distance walk I 've tackled , and very different from the first . |
| 5 | He became the doyen of British physicists , and incidentally one of the first whose voice we can still hear , preserved in a primitive recorder at Glasgow University . |