Example sentences of "first [coord] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 2 | The new ‘ baby ’ BMW — the third edition since it evolved in 1975 — remains first and foremost a driver 's car . |
| 3 | The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer . |
| 4 | But whatever the extent of anti-British feeling , the impatience was first and foremost a sign that the final peace showed no immediate signs of becoming reality . |
| 5 | But , however special , it is first and foremost a workplace — in just the same way as a factory , a hospital , or school . |
| 6 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 7 | The identities of the individual sections may well survive but each member of staff is first and foremost a part of Lothian Highways . |
| 8 | The political significance the radicals assumed from the 1890s was first and foremost a measure of the close correspondence between their programmes and mass aspirations . |
| 9 | For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization . |
| 10 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 11 | At a tete-a-tete recently with analysts and the press , Windows NT product manager , Dwayne Walker , said that although it can be used on a server , it was ‘ first and foremost a desktop operating system . ’ |
| 12 | An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise . |
| 13 | The fact that Murphy considers himself first and foremost a businessman who happens to be in PR helps to explain the care with which the decision to sell PRCS was taken . |
| 14 | For anyone who still needs convincing that Craig is first and foremost a guitarist he quotes an incident that happened when the Y-Fronts got back together for a gig in Melbourne , during the time he was with Neighbours . |
| 15 | But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station . |
| 16 | The little tailor , as I have told you , was first and foremost a craftsman , and he stared in wonder at this beautiful model and could not begin to imagine what fine tools or instruments had carved and wrought it . |
| 17 | The Profitboss steps in to defuse any fears about the organization , generating first and foremost a belief in himself a belief that he will fight for his people in the pursuit of profit , a belief that he will reciprocate their care and concern for the organization a belief that he will he trustworthy in his communications . |
| 18 | A socialist , certainly , but first and foremost a Mitterrandist . |
| 19 | ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’ |
| 20 | He is free to consider himself first and foremost a participant in the nationally important business of the Bundestag . |
| 21 | The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time . |
| 22 | ‘ She is first and foremost a mother and she shares all their sorrows . |
| 23 | However , it requires some skill to devise a service which is relevant to a varied congregation and yet remains first and foremost an act of worship . |
| 24 | One very obvious but important observation is that a pub is first and foremost an interior . |
| 25 | His was the discipline and the drive of the scientist ; Lear was first and foremost an artist . |
| 26 | The opera is first and foremost an evocation of genius loci , and subsequently a gallery of types and humours . |
| 27 | Conran is first and foremost an entrepreneur , who lives up magnificently to his own definition of what such a person should be : someone who takes risks after carefully assessing the opportunities available to him . |
| 28 | The driving mirror is first and foremost an image : a self-reflexive representation or , in psychoanalytic terms , a narcissistic identification . |