Example sentences of "[art] first and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Logist had the first and the last round drawn and the remainder for Leonard , while Joe Cortez gave the fourth , fifth , ninth and 10th rounds to Duran to produce the narrowest margin , 116-111 . |
| 2 | Though accepting both the first and the third , the philosophically unsophisticated would reject the second . |
| 3 | The first and the last ! |
| 4 | That means political unpopularity for the first and the wrath of the ERM for the second . |
| 5 | Between the first and the second DPQ over three-quarters of the participants either reduced to ( 72 per cent ) or remained at ( six per cent ) a medium or low level of risk . |
| 6 | Information from the drink diaries , based on a comparison of the averages for the first and the last three weeks of the course , revealed a shift from high to moderate drinking levels for males , that is , from 40 to 32 units per week . |
| 7 | Overall , almost three-quarters of the participants either reduced their intake ( 61 per cent ) or remained at the same level ( 11 per cent ) between the first and the last three weeks of the course . |
| 8 | The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then . |
| 9 | The second cleavage is at right angles to the first and the third again at right angles . |
| 10 | Another constable now joined the first and the chairman was getting fidgety . |
| 11 | The training lasted four years , and had only two terms of formal instruction in college - the first and the last . |
| 12 | The method involves calculating two half-slopes : the left-hand half-slope is calculated between the first and the middle summary point , and the right-hand half-slope between the middle and the third point . |
| 13 | Although the day-to-day arrangements in Birmingham were similar to those in London , a brief account of the details is useful because Birmingham was the first and the largest provincial area to operate a scheme independently of the Board of Trade . |
| 14 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 15 | I had other pet lambs , but Nanny Bateson was the first and the best-remembered . |
| 16 | In this article I will deal with the first and the last — ‘ professional clearance ’ and confidentiality . |
| 17 | The first and the most obvious is to have a figure to put into one 's calculations on the strength of structures . |
| 18 | So a week or so may elapse between the first and the last eggs hatching . |
| 19 | This can be done for any letter position , including the first and the last letters of a word , and for more than one letter position , although it is not a good policy to allow more than two per word if the accuracy of the recogniser is to be relied on at all . |
| 20 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 21 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |
| 22 | The most problematic of these , in view of their diversity , were the first and the last . |
| 23 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 24 | For example , midday on Sunday until midday on the following Sunday could be called eight days , rather than seven , as eight days were involved , even though the first and the last were incomplete . |
| 25 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 26 | It is not easy to distinguish between the first and the second categories : Reynolds could well have belonged to both . |
| 27 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 28 | This unusual situation provides a motivation for bringing together the extreme poles of our everyday understanding of space and time : the most outer and the most inner , the first and the last . |
| 29 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 30 | Well the working in the pit and the first and the first time I went down the pit er the pit was er John Watson 's number four colliery in Motherwell . |