Example sentences of "[art] first [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A literal translation of the first is scarcely interpretable : to make warm throats of something ; the second translates into something a little easier to construe : t o give one 's tongue to the cat . |
| 2 | The first is clearly easier but less likely to be representative . |
| 3 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |
| 4 | But the first is also significant , suggesting that the duke had had designs on some of the earl 's patronage . |
| 5 | But the first is also significant , suggesting that the duke had had designs on some of the earl 's patronage . |
| 6 | The first is more intense , with the buck putting up a spirited resistance ; in the second its lolling tongue and gentler stance suggest that it is about to succumb . |
| 7 | Similarly , the falsificationist must prefer the claim that the velocity of light in a vacuum is 299.8 × 10 6 metres per second to the less-precise claim that it is about 300 × 10 6 metres per second , just because the first is more falsifiable than the second . |
| 8 | The first is more difficult . |
| 9 | The first is quite boring , and the second is less boring . |
| 10 | The following graph ( Figure ) suggests that , though neither of these pure cases completely reflects what happens , the first is quite near to it , i.e. very little new material is detected in a normal Lolium temulentum canopy once the LB-level is passed . |
| 11 | But whereas the first is deeply pernicious , the second is merely inevitable . |
| 12 | The first is as familiar for the wine of the same name as for the exceptionally pretty town , which has a square surrounded by wine cellars . |
| 13 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 14 | Of these three ingredients , the first is seldom possible for open-market economies , given market forces . |
| 15 | The first is very short duration , maximum output attacks . |
| 16 | The first is much larger : 444 interviews carried out in the early 1970s . |
| 17 | While the first were certainly corrupt , Bacon claimed to be as innocent of these ‘ as any born upon St Innocent 's Day ’ . |
| 18 | The first was yet another Commonwealth meeting , to prepare a broad policy among the powerful Commonwealth countries that would help to offset the massive US influence over the Latin American countries . |
| 19 | The first was largely devoted to a wedding , the second was set in Vietnam , and the third mostly back in America . |
| 20 | The first was scarcely large enough to qualify as a room . |
| 21 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 22 | Uncle Ernie 's fall at the first was hardly reassuring but Remittance Man soon put his rider 's mind at rest . |
| 23 | The first was relatively straightforward . |
| 24 | In 1800 , the parish received two bequests from John May of Snodland , the first was that ten poor children of Halling should be instructed in reading , writing and arithmetic , along with ten from Birling and twenty from Snodland . |
| 25 | The first was only 18 months ago when we took on the New Zealand Emerging Players XI . |