Example sentences of "in the first [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then .
2 Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ .
3 In the first and the third of these phases , roles and statuses are carefully distinguished ; in the second they are confused , " we " and " they " are mixed up , behaviour which would be outrageous in ordinary life becomes normal and even obligatory .
4 The dragon-ships of midstream , abandoning the dead in the first and the second , thrust forward and , turning rapidly in , ran up on shore further upriver and began to land men fast , under a renewed fall of arrows .
5 This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one .
6 In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin .
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