Example sentences of "[art] first and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any system of ideas or convictions , truth is the first and pre-eminent consideration , and its absence cancels any other possible virtues . |
| 2 | This canon marks the first and crucial step to the creation of ‘ patriarchates ’ , a dignity soon to be shared by Constantinople ( founded 330 ) and Jerusalem , giving the Greek East four patriarchates to the West 's one . |
| 3 | Once the first and crucial step has been taken of recognising that everyone needs help to handle what are very distressing events , the next step is to request and take advantage of all the support available . |
| 4 | A sense of smell is the first and primary thing for the animal because it gives it its sense of direction and it 's very important and it goes gently cold , delicately as the dark snow . |
| 5 | The first and essential thing that you will require is your mortgage . |
| 6 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 7 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 8 | He was the first and only candidate to call the rightful name of the Palestinian people ; he said the words , the Palestinians , as he called for self-determination and statehood for these beleaguered , taboo human beings . |
| 9 | Jesse Jackson was the first and only candidate for the Democratic nomination to assert that there must be a single standard for the measurement and protection of human rights throughout the world ; no country — not France nor Israel not Nigeria not South Korea nor Iran nor South Africa — should be exempted from the requirements of that single standard . |
| 10 | As for training , as my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) has just reminded us , the Government have introduced the first and only guarantee anywhere in Europe of a two-year training place for every 16 and 17-year-old who needs it . |
| 11 | This was the first and only certainty , that he had fallen foul of Isambard , and was now in captivity . |
| 12 | He was the first and only contender for the US Presidency to demand that South Africa be designated a terrorist state and treated accordingly . |
| 13 | This was the first and only news that we had ever had that Thomas 's aircraft had crashed in a built-up area , let alone on a house , and that seven French people had been killed . |
| 14 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 15 | For the first and only time , the audience applauded . |
| 16 | We played The Marquee for the first and only time supporting Eddie And The Hot Rods . |
| 17 | For the first and only time on the journey , posters , shop signs and street names meant nothing to me . |
| 18 | With a few very distinguished exceptions , the skiing is on the easy side , well suited to beginners who can enjoy the scenic and economic advantages of a single two bar hamlet for the first and only time . |
| 19 | But three minutes after the interval Leeds skipper Ellery Hanley took Schofield 's short pass to spin out of a tackle and go over for the try , goaled by Gallagher , which put Leeds in front for the first and only time in the game . |
| 20 | Slater also says it 's the first and only time he 's ever seen clock ratings take such baby steps — 33 to 40 to 45 to 50 . |
| 21 | AUSTRALIA clinched the series at Adelaide , but their path to a winning , 3–0 lead was obstructed by an excellent performance from India , whose captain Mohammad Azharuddin waited until the exciting last day before exhibiting his undoubted skills with the bat for the first and only time in the series . |
| 22 | He walks beyond fatigue , beyond the limits of endurance and the frontiers of self , and somewhere along this path he loses his balance , falls off the edge of his sanity , and out here beyond his mind 's rim he sees , for the first and only time in his life , a vision . |
| 23 | It was the first and only time I walked over to the pavillon , knocked on the door and entered alone . |
| 24 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 25 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 26 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 27 | When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate , for the first and only time , and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds . |
| 28 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 29 | The first and only time Ive seen him ‘ Burst ’ . |
| 30 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |