Example sentences of "not the first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How was Norway Chamberlain 's fault and not the First Sea Lord 's ? |
| 2 | Er , you will not the first year returns estimated at at ninety odd percent I think for this scheme . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 4 | This is not the first time golf has stumbled on its projected step into the 21st century . |
| 5 | It 's not the first time Faringdon 's been flooded , but in living memory this may be the worst deluge |
| 6 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 7 | It 's not the first time punters , who bet £1.6billion a year just on the dogs , have found themselves cornered in the doghouse . |
| 8 | This is not the first time Seitz had pondered what Digest calls ‘ the Norman puzzle ’ . |
| 9 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 10 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 11 | This is not the first time Mr Gorbachev has shown his brutal streak . |
| 12 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 13 | Well , first of all , I 've heard that — it 's not the first time he 's been arrested , and it 's not the first time de-programmers have been arrested . |
| 14 | It 's not the first time Milton Keynes has been hit by firebombers . |
| 15 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 16 | It 's not the first time Barphone has been a takeover target . |
| 17 | It 's not the first time airmen have died in this way near Upper Heyford. 23 years ago , the pilot of a Voodoo jet reconaissance aircraft crashed into a tree after just managing to clear the roof of Steeple Aston school . |
| 18 | This was not the first time feminists had mobilized politically around religion , both to mount a searching critique of patriarchal society and to envisage more egalitarian forms of social organization . |
| 19 | It is not the first time Robins has been angry at deals negotiated by his predecessor . |
| 20 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 21 | Little Big Man was certainly not the first Hollywood movie to attempt to redress the balance in favour of the Indians . |
| 22 | He is not the first Cabinet minister from Shotts . |
| 23 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 24 | ai n't the first diploma B F D. |
| 25 | It was n't the first time Berowne had spent the night in St Matthew 's church vestry . ’ |
| 26 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 27 | It was n't the first time Juliet had wished she were n't an only child . |
| 28 | It was n't the first time Isabel had said the words . |
| 29 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 30 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |