Example sentences of "[be] not [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 2 | They were not at first acute and Celia supposed that they could be due to indigestion and therefore a false alarm . |
| 3 | Since superficially there seemed to be no obvious grammatical blunders , and the vocabulary was not obviously faulty , the ingredients of this foreignness were not at first apparent . |
| 4 | Its functions were not at first regarded by the courts with much enthusiasm . |
| 5 | So great was the devestation that rescue workers were not at first sure how many vehicles were involved . |
| 6 | But around the 1400-ft contour , there is excitement in plenty although it is not at first apparent . |
| 7 | It is not at first clear what these people had to offer Wordsworth , though he tried to help them . |
| 8 | This is not at first apparent , mainly because of the particular uses to which his work has been put . |
| 9 | Whether they take one particular legal form or another , whether they involve particular instruments or another set , is not of first importance . |
| 10 | In the standard account of the party 's growth into a modern political organisation over the period 1910–24 , McKibbin ( 1974 ) concludes that the war was not of first importance to its ultimate rise to power : |
| 11 | Even when the conflict entered the public domain , the significance of what came to be described as ‘ The Scandal of Tyndale ’ was not at first apparent . |
| 12 | It was not at first shared by most serf-owners in the provinces , or indeed by most of the great landowners among senior officials . |
| 13 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
| 14 | He envisaged a restoration of commercial activity on the canals , and was not at first sympathetic to their conversion into a leisure amenity . |
| 15 | The organization of this was not at first easily accepted by every member of staff . |