Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is clear that , for objective structural reasons , it was , during a certain long historical period , easier for the bourgeoisie to make meaningful use of the second , and the working classes the first , than vice versa . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 3 | According to Jazz head of sales and marketing Katy Turner , the appointment gives the three stations the first opportunity to sell against Capital , the UK 's largest radio station . |
| 4 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 5 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 6 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 7 | The place looked heart-wrenchingly familiar , yet in several respects changed too , for as they pulled up below the main steps the first things she noticed were the banks of geraniums and polyanthus cascading over the balconies and frothing down either side of the entrance . |
| 8 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 9 | Driving-time : one and a half hours the first time , two hours the second . |