Example sentences of "[not/n't] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 2 | And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed ! |
| 3 | She was not the first person to wonder about the secret of Harry Short 's success . |
| 4 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 5 | Parul Courtney told the court that she knew he had made love to other women , but added : ‘ My husband is not the first person to have an affair , nor the last . ’ |
| 6 | You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice . |
| 7 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | You 're not the first person that have ever thought of it though , that 's what I 'm trying to say to you |
| 10 | But you see this is not the first chiller is it . |
| 11 | Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate . |
| 12 | Or , finally , two events are cause and effect if the probability of the second event , given the first event and certain accompanying conditions , is greater than the probability of the second event , given those conditions but not the first event . |
| 13 | It 's not the first event of its kind , but itis the largest |
| 14 | How was Norway Chamberlain 's fault and not the First Sea Lord 's ? |
| 15 | In the darkness , under cover of which they had been kissing cuddling so much ( with his hand inside her blouse ) that she had not the first idea what the film was about , he took her hand and guided it down to his lap . |
| 16 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 17 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 18 | This is , of course , not the first year in which budgetary cuts have had to be made . |
| 19 | Er , you will not the first year returns estimated at at ninety odd percent I think for this scheme . |
| 20 | Can I just say sir , we are , er , the manager is preparing a report , tonight plans a report for the February the twenty-second meeting of policy resources committee , on the first , well it 's not the first year , first tranche of the F M contract , and dealing with these points of the |
| 21 | Not the first scandal , but perhaps the most comprehensive , provoked by a suntan . |
| 22 | ‘ And it 's not the first money that Harvey has embezzled . ’ |
| 23 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 24 | It is not the first occasion that I have had to accept the disappointment of missing an international . |
| 25 | A new CDU-FDP combination had been considered but the FDP seemed fickle and unreliable : October 1966 was not the first occasion of course on which they had left the Cabinet . |
| 26 | Clozapine is not the first treatment for schizophrenia to be hailed as a significant advance , nor is it the first to raise ethical dilemmas . |
| 27 | The alternative voting system at least possesses the virtue of requiring that if such policies are to be persisted in , the doctrine in which they are grounded must have been at least minimally acceptable to , if not the first choice of , a majority of voters . |
| 28 | Probably not the first choice of the new Labour arts minister . |
| 29 | Not the first row , by any means … |
| 30 | She 's not the first servant to get herself into trouble and she wo n't be the last . |