Example sentences of "not [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims . |
| 2 | It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) . |
| 3 | She would definitely not make the first move . |
| 4 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 5 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 6 | And not to benefit the first marriage and not to benefit any of the children . |
| 7 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 8 | Even so , Dalziel not missed a first team game since October and Saturday 's decisive strike against Kilmarnock took his tally for this year to seven as well as his total for the season to 30 . |
| 9 | At times , house air waybills use neutral formats that do not identify the first airline . |
| 10 | The attacks did not constitute the first manifestations of organised racist aggression but the events were used as supporting evidence for the claims of the anti-immigration lobby . |
| 11 | The keeper , who has not played a first team game since October , made several fine saves to keep a Palace-dominated opening period goalless . |
| 12 | Black could operate on the right for there is no challenge now from Robbie Dennison ( Wolverhampton Wanderers ) who did not sign his new contract until earlier this week and has not played a first team game this season — missing out also on the club 's Scandinavian tour . |
| 13 | Billingsley rephrased his insolent question as though I had not understood the first version . |
| 14 | With a longer dissertation , be careful not to overload the first part , especially if it is a biographical summary , a description of historical context , or a literature review — all of which are potentially interminable . |
| 15 | Why not take the first step to a happy ending — and complete the coupon right now ? |
| 16 | If you are not having a first course , a couple of plain poppadums are an acceptable indulgence , but do n't get carried away — and do n't allow yourself to start dipping in the chutneys ! |
| 17 | You do not enter the first forest for fun , for adventure . |
| 18 | She would mince about in her old fashioned winkle-picker shoes not knowing the first thing about dancing . |
| 19 | We assume that graduates will do and say things in a considered way and not proffer the first thing that occurs to them . |
| 20 | ( Thus a child who did not reach the first birthday is counted as zero year old ; from 12 completed months to 23 completed months as one year old , etc . ) |
| 21 | Not marrying the first man who asked |
| 22 | The treaty was never implemented , however , perhaps because the French could not raise the first instalment of the ransom in the six months specified , and in May 1359 the ‘ Second Treaty of London ’ was concluded . |
| 23 | Ball , who has not started a first team match since the Shrewsbury trip in mid February , beat two defenders before rifling home a glorious 15-yard strike in the 52nd minute . |
| 24 | New Scientist should not allow the first weapons with terminal guidance to be installed before noting that the accuracy is needed to destroy missiles in hardened concrete silos : in other words for a first strike . |
| 25 | In other words , if you do not receive a first grading , that is as far as you go although you get a written critique , so that you at least know why you did n't make the placings . |
| 26 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 27 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 28 | Lord Hope did not accept the first submission on behalf of the pursuers , which was to the effect that when the completed application form was sent to the building society the pursuers had accepted an offer made by the society to consider the application , as , unlike in Hunter v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Co , 19O9SC ( HL ) 3O , the building society in the present case had not given any undertaking to consider the application and were under no obligation to do so . |
| 29 | She was determined not to make the first move . |
| 30 | However , the areas he must address do not concern the first team alone . |