Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 2 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 3 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 4 | Taking the early batches of eggs or fry away may interfere with the parents ' ability to raise later batches , so I leave a few batches with a new pair until they get the knack , which may not be at the first attempt . |
| 5 | They should not be in the first rank of share prices to be marked down , but would nevertheless be most unlikely to buck the market trend . |
| 6 | We may not be in the First Eleven , but we are a pretty strong team , Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Beerbohm , Chesterton and Haverford Downs . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that this satisfactory industrial position will be maintained after the War , for , unfortunately , in the past the deaf and dumb have always been amongst the first to be pushed to the wall in periods of depression . |
| 8 | It almost always is on a first night , when the audience tends to be Mums , Dads , husbands , wives , lovers and friends-in-the-business . |
| 9 | Mayer is a Yale-trained lawyer , his background is equally in racing and business , he knows the value of money and how to extract it from sponsors and also was among the first to appreciate , in the changing nature of the sport that the big bucks and the big battalions give any team a better chance of achieving championship results . |
| 10 | The figures that I read out are for the first year . |
| 11 | The evaluation reported here is of the first versions of the lexical access component ( LA ) and of the project 's acoustic-phonetic front-end ( SEGLAB ) . |
| 12 | The concern here is with the first of these points . |
| 13 | I do nt think anyone would argue that Strach should nt be in the first team . |
| 14 | Our concern essentially is with the first of these possibilities , the case of natural monopoly — no competition is possible . |