Example sentences of "of [adv] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the cases which have from time to time been relied on in support of the High Trees doctrine are clearly examples of only the first principle .
2 The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example .
3 All that remains of probably the first country house in England to be modelled on a Palladian villa .
4 Yes , there 's the relief of knowing you do n't have to worry about where the next question is coming from , but that 's simply replaced by the worry of where the first answer is coming from .
5 He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous .
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