Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note .
2 She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister .
3 The final proof , or perhaps the first , is the chub 's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips .
4 for loss of or damage to property belonging to or held in trust by or in the custody or control of the Insured Person ( other that self catering accommodation where only the first £50 of any loss or damage is excluded ) ;
5 Unlike the First Concerto , which in terms of its piano writing is completely honest , and where only the first movement 's double trills need to be re-arranged to become audible , the Second Concerto requires some adjustments in order to serve Brahms 's purpose , and not merely to make life easier for the pianist !
6 It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’
7 Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Product at which the list will start .
8 Start string an identifying string , which can be the whole or just the first part of the title of the Client at which the list will start .
9 We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership .
10 If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 .
11 By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling .
12 Somehow we are sure that this is not the first diet you have ever bought , or indeed the first time you have tried to lose weight .
13 So , in the first place it 's selfish , second place , or maybe the first place , it 's unnatural and who are , who are they thinking about ?
14 Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it .
15 Such a showering that only the first
16 One hopes that only the first group will inherit the earth .
17 ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . )
18 Note that only the first kind of relational information , i.e. that on the speaker-referent axis , imposes intrinsic limitations on the ways in which such information can be encoded — namely in referring expressions , and morphological agreements with them .
19 Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English .
20 Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery .
21 Port Solent offers berth holders more than just the first class yacht sales and repair facilities of the south coast 's most prestigious marina , it also offers 24 hour access 365 days a year .
22 It has become a pure threat signal rather than just the first stage of an attack .
23 Jesus was and is the new Adam : not the unfallen Adam of innocent humanity restored , but the first of a redeemed and resurrected humanity — a greater and more gloriously human humanity than ever the first Adam knew .
24 One of the problems with laser techniques however is that often the first excited atomic transition — to the next available energy levels of the atom — corresponds to energies in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum , which is as yet inaccessible to lasers .
25 The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and
26 She warned that even the first injection of hard drugs can kill .
27 It is part of our thesis that sexual and political revolution go hand in hand and that indeed the first is prerequisite of the second .
28 The braguinha has four gut strings , although sometimes the first string is wire to give a more strident tone .
29 Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions .
30 The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him .
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