Example sentences of "and [adj -est] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They wash with the soap and ingest the drug .
2 The new ‘ baby ’ BMW — the third edition since it evolved in 1975 — remains first and foremost a driver 's car .
3 The identities of the individual sections may well survive but each member of staff is first and foremost a part of Lothian Highways .
4 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 .
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 political significance the radicals assumed from the 1890s was first and foremost a measure of the close correspondence between their programmes and mass aspirations .
8 The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer .
9 For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station .
13 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 .
14 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 . ’
15 He is free to consider himself first and foremost a participant in the nationally important business of the Bundestag .
16 An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise .
17 ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’
18 A socialist , certainly , but first and foremost a Mitterrandist .
19 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 .
20 The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time .
21 ‘ She is first and foremost a mother and she shares all their sorrows .
22 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 .
23 I would like them to know also that this is still first and foremost a people company , and that it will stay that way .
24 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 .
25 As a political , rather than psychological , phenomenon , national liberation and nationalism concern first and foremost the State — the aspiration to create a State , or the defence or expansion of an existing State .
26 ‘ Oh Nick , always first and foremost the editor ! ’
27 That is first and foremost the business of the political representatives here , who are elected by and responsible to the people .
28 In textile manufacture women were first and foremost the spinners .
29 In this sense it is first and foremost the executive agency of the mind and is charged with the fundamental functions of decision-making and surveillance of the input from the senses as well as sensations arising from the instinctual drives of the id .
30 The opera is first and foremost an evocation of genius loci , and subsequently a gallery of types and humours .
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