Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] foremost a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But Radio One will always be first and foremost a pop station .
2 The PROFITBOSS is first and foremost a welfare officer .
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 But , however special , it is first and foremost a workplace — in just the same way as a factory , a hospital , or school .
5 An enquiry is first and foremost a fact finding exercise .
6 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 .
7 ‘ She is first and foremost a mother and she shares all their sorrows .
8 ‘ The philosophy underpinning the Government housing policy rests firmly on the belief that housing is first and foremost a matter for the private sector . ’
9 For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time .
14 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 .
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