Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nice strategy is defined as one that is never the first to defect . |
| 2 | This is again a comprehensive and thoroughly investigated article and is probably the first extended account of Situationist cinema in English . |
| 3 | Thomas Deloney , reckoned to be England 's first novelist , mentions dastardly goings-on there in the late 1500s , so the Ostrich has the distinction of being one of the half a dozen claimants to the title of oldest inn in England , and is also the first mentioned in an English novel . |
| 4 | The project is not only symbolically important , but is also the first attempt to show the history of a town integrated with that of its Jewish community . |
| 5 | The present study is not only covering new ground in concentrating on a single age-group — teenagers — but is also the first study in the U.K. to extensively interview both parents and children from a sample of divorced and intact families . |
| 6 | This model is complex , but is just the first step in explaining the development of schizophrenia . |