Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ . |
| 2 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 4 | Yellow phosphine ( 7 ) was not only the first acridinium compound to be discovered , but was also the first basic orange dyestuff . |
| 5 | Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely . |
| 6 | Where the case is apt for a Ghosh direction , the whole test must be given not just the first part : Ravenshad [ 1990 ] Crim LR 398 ( CA ) and Brennan [ 1990 ] Crim LR 118 ( CA ) ( on handling ) . |
| 7 | Not often the first person , always the third person but authentic all the same . |
| 8 | It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology . |
| 9 | But when you first say you 've got this problem , they 're losing votes , the media is n't necessarily the first thing that 's going to come to your mind . |
| 10 | It was n't enough the first time , and it wo n't be enough now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't usually the first thing I tell people about myself , although the old dollies do have their ways of claiming my attention . ’ |