Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need would be to show , against reasonable expectation , that the second did not divert attention from the first . |
| 2 | Which Councils — more often than not called synods during the first thousand years — were ecumenical was determined not by the pope , but by their reception in the Church at large . |
| 3 | If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car . |
| 4 | Increasingly , she wondered if in some unconscious way she had not simulated naivety since the first weeks of her marriage , if she had not — through her uncontrollable selflessness — permitted a skin to grow instead of probing beneath it . |
| 5 | But it 's even more of a comfort for baby if he does n't get wind in the first place . |