Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 .
2 The best stories , though , are perhaps the first , about a middle-aged bachelor farming alone after his mother dies , and the last , about a member of the village brass band picking up a woman on a bus trip to Venice .
3 Elections , however , are only the first step .
4 Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road .
5 National data on the use of each part of the service by age and sex , married persons and unmarried persons , is used as the basis of these weightings , but they are only the first stage .
6 When Baudelaire wrote to Manet , ‘ you are only the first in the decrepitude of your art ’ , is he meant presumably to italicize the ‘ your ’ and thus confirm that he , Baudelaire , was the first in the ‘ decrepitude ’ of his own art .
7 However , as was pointed out there , the waves predicted by such theory are only the first stage of the evolution towards turbulent motion .
8 And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed !
9 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 .
10 I am not the first one to have criticised this side of the Labour party 's proposals .
11 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 .
12 Spitting and firing are not the first words to spring to mind when Yorkshire 's venerable left-arm spinner Phil Carrick is mentioned .
13 ‘ You are not the first English person to have admired Maria 's cooking . ’
14 ‘ You are not the first , you will not be the last , ’ she said , and then smiled at him .
15 ‘ Is n't it strange , Master Southgate , you are not the first to say that .
16 Moreton and Furley are not the first men to die of redundancy .
17 The light-sensitive cells ( " photocells " ) are not the first thing the light hits , but they are buried inside and facing away from the light .
18 Judges are not the first species that springs to mind as a faithful tribune of popular perception .
19 We are just the first ones . ’
20 I thought : These are just the first hundred , for the rest of my life — strangers who 'll know , who 'll find out , who 'll try not to react but who will react .
21 ‘ These two ventures , along with the expected announcement of first gas from one of our recent discoveries in Colombia , are just the first of many exciting projects we expect to see come to fruition over the next year or so , ’ Chris told Pipeline .
22 The general SVQs which we are introducing from August 1992 are just the first of a proposed series of new general SVQs .
23 Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians .
24 You 're normally the first one home .
25 ‘ You 're not the first to be affected by the pool . ’
26 ‘ I have to confess , you 're not the first woman I 've made love to . ’
27 You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice .
28 ‘ Because you 're not the first .
29 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
30 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 …
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