Example sentences of "but [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 2 | The range was wide , but only the first two attracted much notice , the Arts Council Working Party pointing out in 1969 that since these were not crimes at all , how could it be ‘ a heavily punishable crime to ‘ induce ’ these particular non-crimes ? ’ |
| 3 | She had made four previous films : Shenandoah ( 1965 ) , The Singing Nun ( 1966 ) , Mr Buddwing ( 1966 ) and Games ( 1967 ) , but only the first of these had any merit . |
| 4 | The Eastern District Leagues are nearly completed but only the first of the six divisions has been decided . |
| 5 | Most of the information ( and more besides ) could be obtained from the company itself but generally the first step will be to Companies House . |
| 6 | Eric of Mallion was the first champion to be born in this country , but not the first to gain this title because he did not actually become a champion until he was seven years old . |
| 7 | Members of Village community made use of the second and third but not the first social argument against school closure listed on page 35 , and added a number of other way of life arguments of their own . |
| 8 | Or , finally , two events are cause and effect if the probability of the second event , given the first event and certain accompanying conditions , is greater than the probability of the second event , given those conditions but not the first event . |
| 9 | It is now clear that , to make up X , we require ( i ) an eigenvector x1 satisfying unc ( ii ) an auxiliary vector unc satisfying unc ( iii ) an eigenvector x3 satisfying unc In the numerical example ( 10 ) , unc and postmultiplication by x1 = { 1,2,4 } makes both vanish ; postmultiplication by unc = { 1,0 , -1 } annihilates the second but not the first ; the product yields — x1 . |
| 10 | Indeed through the second method ( but not the first ) we might come to some decision about the responsibilities of the group or institution while still in doubt ( or disagreeing among ourselves ) about the consequent liabilities or responsibilities of the relevant individuals . |
| 11 | Our research methodology is to proceed in stages ; this paper does not present the whole story but just the first step in the argument . |
| 12 | But once the first of these did arrive , Edward Plantagenet lost no time in testing their quality . |
| 13 | In the immediate post-conciliar phase ( 1966 – 7 ) , Rome remained not far off the avant-garde of progress , but once the first round of directives was complete and the curia firmly back in control , the conservative tendency regained the upper hand in the centre while progressive tendencies were still growing stronger in many a periphery . |
| 14 | It was the appearance of the railway station in the non-European world which staked its claim to be not only the distinctive architectural form of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , but also the first which was genuinely world-wide . |
| 15 | Deutsch has also made arrangements with King 's College Cambridge and the Society of Authors , acting on behalf of the estate of E M Forster , to renew and continue publication of the Abinger Edition of E M Forster , which will include not only some of the earlier works , but also the first publication of material contained in the King 's College Forster archives . |
| 16 | This should be resisted by the tenant as not only will the term be slightly diminished ( by almost three months where , for instance , the certificate date is a few days before a quarter day ) which could be relevant for a comparatively short term lease , but also the first and subsequent rent review dates will be that much sooner , which at a rent of , say , £100,000 per year , increasing to £140,000 per year ( in an inflationary market ) on the first rent review , would add £10,000 per quarter to the rent . |
| 17 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 18 | But now the first of these is up for sale as Dawn tries to beat her own crisis . |
| 19 | But even the first child can throw a low-income family into poverty . |
| 20 | But then the first son dies leaving a son and the second dies childless . |
| 21 | Yeah but then the first thing he would have done would have been got up and gone off and got it done privately . |
| 22 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 23 | But actually the first part of it |