Example sentences of "[adj] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After having amassed around 200 hours on the Corsair since purchasing it in 1982 , the novelty of flying this beast has not diminished : ‘ Today I feel that every flight in the Corsair is as exciting as the first , mainly because with the Corsair you can not afford to be complacent , as the aircraft will sometimes bite back , so I have to be alert all the time while I am flying ’ . |
| 2 | His second venture into self-mythography is every bit as entertaining as the first , and has the added spice of political and personal deep texture . |
| 3 | If advertising is as old as the first caveman who scrawled " Bonzo is the greatest Caveman " across a cave wall , then public relations must have started before Mankind learned to write . |
| 4 | One of the major tasks of this chapter , then , will be to examine the different aspects of gender relations in contemporary Britain in some detail , to see if the conditions under which women live are as rosy as the first set of writers suggest , as unchanged as the second school of thought has argued , or some complex mixture of change and continuity . |
| 5 | ‘ Three nines ’ is not uncommon : purity warranted to within 0.999 of absolute purity , with some certainty that the umpteenth consignment will be as pure as the first . |
| 6 | This is most likely as frightening as the first time you prayed out loud . |
| 7 | It was a carbon-copy deed , just as terrible as the first time . |
| 8 | Bradford 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay against Halifax , if it is half as good as the first game at Thrum Hall , will be the most keenly contested of tomorrow 's fixtures . |
| 9 | It was just as good as the first Home Alone . |
| 10 | But the second time , they tell me , is n't as good as the first time when you go . |
| 11 | Half an hour later , her second son emerged , as strong and healthy as the first , and Pen Browning arrived two hours later to go into paroxysms of delight . |
| 12 | The composer did have the opportunity to revise and shorten the Second Symphony , but it remains as long as the First , and needs a strong forward motivation which it certainly receives here . |
| 13 | ANDES staged a second major strike in 1971 which lasted almost as long as the first and received extensive popular backing . |
| 14 | In order to provide an adequate period of relief it should be at least as long as the first sentence of the theme . |
| 15 | Rehearsals were hell — although not quite as hellish as the first performances in Cambridge . |
| 16 | Here , there is less possibility of philosophical variation , but this second characterization of the nature of the causal items is perhaps as important as the first . |
| 17 | The door swung open again and a blond man as muscled as the first and cleanshaven in white T-shirt and faded jeans paused casually at the kerb , looked right then left and walked after the bearded man . |
| 18 | Aunt Margaret was as fragile as the first white shoots put trembling out by a bulb kept in a pot in a dark airing-cupboard . |
| 19 | I find this final strand of Kane 's theory as unacceptable as the first two in its pretensions to scientific validity and equally as objectionable in its racist undertones . |
| 20 | The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first . |
| 21 | This was not so wide as the first one had been , and she bridged it safely . |
| 22 | At the far side was a second gate , nearly as massive as the first . |
| 23 | The most celebrated of all the northern constellations is distinctive even though it contains no star as bright as the first magnitude . |
| 24 | Once again she suffered badly from morning-sickness although it was n't as bad as the first time . |
| 25 | Lonnie 's art lay in the reinventing of American folk and blues tunes and his anguished keening on such glories as ‘ New Burying Ground ’ and ‘ Frankie And Johnny ’ is as unforgettable as a first kiss . |