Example sentences of "but [subord] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 2 | But although the first ground for the granting of warrants is , as drafted , the most troubling , the second ( for preventing or detecting serious crime ) is also a cause for concern . |
| 3 | ‘ We had hoped that the end of the year — 1992 — which is the first part of our financial year ( CGI ends its fiscal year on August 31 ) , would signal a recovery , but although the first two months — September and October — improved on the year before , they were followed by November and December , which were less and less good , ’ said Robert Mallet , president-director general of the group . |
| 4 | But if the first byte has a ( hexadecimal ) value of 9C , 9D , 9E , 9F , or B2 , then a 4-byte " 5 " format instruction is indicated , and in this format the operation code field occupies the first two bytes . |
| 5 | But if the first factor is simply degenerate , it must appear twice . |
| 6 | But if the first speaker is not seated at the top table there may be a pause while he walks to the microphone . |
| 7 | I mean the most exciting moment of all is when you are actually chosen for a part — after that initial excitement it 's a bit downhill — not because the work is n't marvellous but because the first challenge is the peak . |
| 8 | But whereas the first is deeply pernicious , the second is merely inevitable . |
| 9 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 10 | But after the first 8½ lines these crosswinds of emotion are harmonized , and the poem concludes with a dignified and controlled recognition of the fact of death . |
| 11 | But after the first somewhat angry alienation' , apart from Macaulay who remained doubtful , the honesty of the old antislavery leadership and of the Young England Agency men enabled them ‘ to play successfully into each other 's hands . |
| 12 | For hundreds of years Svalbard had been a ‘ no-man's-land , ’ but after the First World War Norway was granted sovereignty and the Norwegian flag was hoisted on 14th August 1925 . |
| 13 | But after the first concerts , enthusiasm evaporated . |
| 14 | Almost immediately the helicopter started a transfer from the trawler 's deck , but after the first man had been winched aboard the connecting line to the helicopter parted , followed by the lifeboat 's port tow line . |
| 15 | But after the first few meetings … well , the people there are nice enough … it 's just that we never seem to hear from them between our quarterly meetings " . |
| 16 | But after the first mouthful there was a very strange look on her face . |
| 17 | I began confidently enough , with a humorous extract , but when the first couple of jokes went by with never a chuckle from the audience , I became nervous . |
| 18 | But when the first horsemen loomed close , they proved to be Sir Andrew Leslie and his lieutenants , leading the two thousand reserve force . |
| 19 | As normal he had opened the gallery , but when the first customer came in , he just could not concentrate . |
| 20 | But when the First Test came the tour selectors , with Stewart naturally taking the dominant role , decided that Mains was suspect because he did not have the speed to cover the hard South African grounds when the ball was loose . |
| 21 | A crushing Unionist victory in 1915 , bringing with it disaster for the Labour party and a major setback for the " New Liberalism " might have ended the difficulty , but when the First World War intervened the problem remained . |
| 22 | But when the first storm of autumn stirs the water , they leave their holes in the reef and assemble in large groups . |
| 23 | But when the first Labour man put up for for in the area , West , 's constituency now as near as possible . |
| 24 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 25 | But I must say I do n't expect to be seen as the next Mansell , but as the first Damon Hill . ’ |
| 26 | But as the first Ardakkean strode through the airlock she went wide-eyed , whirled and vanished back into her cabin . |