Example sentences of "be in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 2 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
| 3 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 4 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 5 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 6 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 7 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 8 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
| 9 | A year ago Dorothy had been in the first , ominous stages of her illness , furiously denying that anything could be wrong , her normal ill temper exacerbated by discomfort and increasing disability . |
| 10 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 11 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 12 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 13 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 14 | But the neighbours want the hole moved to where it should have been in the first place . |
| 15 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 16 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 17 | Four are in a first complete remission and one in partial remission . |
| 18 | Should doctors always be so keen to offer abortion as the only solution to women who are in the first throes of disappointment and depression at the news that their baby is not genetically perfect ? |
| 19 | The most important thing is that next season Manchester City are in the First Division . ’ |
| 20 | The most important thing is that next season Manchester City are in the First Division . ’ |
| 21 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 22 | Manufacturers DMF Sportswear are in the first year of a three-year deal with Third Division Barnet , who have three weeks to come up with the cash or face High Court action . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 24 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 25 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
| 26 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My father and uncle ( Richard Hindmoor and John Calvert ) are in the first row standing . |
| 28 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
| 29 | They should not be in the first rank of share prices to be marked down , but would nevertheless be most unlikely to buck the market trend . |
| 30 | To be in the First Division is prestigious , and also lucrative for a club since it ensures large crowds . |