Example sentences of "[be] not [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed ! |
| 2 | I am not the first to suspect that the inhabitants of Massalia spent their money to ransom themselves from Catumarandus rather than the Romans from Brennus . |
| 3 | I am not the first one to have criticised this side of the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 4 | It can be a relief to discover that some of the worrying physical symptoms are not the first indications of some dreaded disease but are stress-related and represent perfectly normal ways of reacting to stress . |
| 5 | Spitting and firing are not the first words to spring to mind when Yorkshire 's venerable left-arm spinner Phil Carrick is mentioned . |
| 6 | ‘ You are not the first English person to have admired Maria 's cooking . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You are not the first , you will not be the last , ’ she said , and then smiled at him . |
| 8 | ‘ Is n't it strange , Master Southgate , you are not the first to say that . |
| 9 | Moreton and Furley are not the first men to die of redundancy . |
| 10 | The light-sensitive cells ( " photocells " ) are not the first thing the light hits , but they are buried inside and facing away from the light . |
| 11 | Judges are not the first species that springs to mind as a faithful tribune of popular perception . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're not the first to be affected by the pool . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have to confess , you 're not the first woman I 've made love to . ’ |
| 14 | You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice . |
| 15 | ‘ Because you 're not the first . |
| 16 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 17 | Its a stranger 's car … but all three children happily get into it … and they 're not the first many of the 750 youngsters … who 've attended Aylesbury Police 's emergency training session … have been tricked by Police officers posing as strangers … |
| 18 | You 're not the first person that have ever thought of it though , that 's what I 'm trying to say to you |
| 19 | LADY DAVERS : He is no fool , child , and libertine enough of conscience , and thou art not the first in the list of his credulous harlots . |
| 20 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 21 | I 'm not the first visitor to this little planet of yours , you know . ’ |
| 22 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 23 | They were discovered in a search for diuretics , i.e. drugs which increase the volume of urine , and were not the first diuretics to have additional valuable properties . |
| 24 | We were not the first and I am sure we will not be the last to respond to financial pressures by selling off rare books . |
| 25 | Bryant and Bradley were not the first to notice that poor readers were also insensitive to the sounds of words , but their study is the first to establish the causal connection between the two . |
| 26 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 27 | The English and Welsh , who look back on the year 1870 ( Forster 's Education Act ) as the effective starting point of a state system , were not the first in Europe to realise that a literate workforce would be needed to meet the ever more complex demands of industry . |
| 28 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 29 | But these fourth-century ‘ apparatchiks ’ , the men of the age of Eubulus ( p. 245 ) , were not the first Athenians to gain power by boring work on committees . |
| 30 | In fact , the Romans were not the first here . |