Example sentences of "to [be] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( There has to be a first one soon ) . |
| 2 | Antiquarian booksellers , like myself , and ardent collectors , feel it is all-important for a book to be a first edition and will sometimes pay the earth to buy such a treasure . |
| 3 | Many employers require a member of their staff to be a first aider . |
| 4 | You do n't need to be a first class embroiderer to create something beautiful and at the same time have lots of fun . |
| 5 | There had to be a first emergence somewhere . |
| 6 | VenturCom Inc 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support X-Windows , claimed to be a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed Network File System on a diskless single-board computer via the E-NFS facility . |
| 7 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 8 | Now that has to be a first . |
| 9 | Ruth was not going to admit that she had never actually made a phone-call herself , but there had to be a first time for everything , and since Connor was out , this would be the ideal opportunity . |
| 10 | With this second novel , Amy Tan has again proved herself to be a first class writer , one who can write books which not only have enormous popular appeal , but also teach us something new about the human condition . |
| 11 | It is designed to be a first maths program for the younger user and is suitable for the 3 to 6 years age group , depending on the level of computer familiarity . |
| 12 | ‘ This has got to be a first . |
| 13 | I do n't know why because that seems to me to be a first rate way of travelling , you know ! |
| 14 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 15 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 16 | ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know . |
| 17 | Though its accounts of individual poems are as searching as anything in Davie 's earlier books ( we owe Carcanet a debt : this is to be the first in a uniform edition of Davie 's work ) , Under Briggflatts is also a mordant and compelling history of the social climates to which these poems were a response . |
| 18 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 19 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 20 | Norrish was elected last May to be the first woman president of the 150-year-old club . |
| 21 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 22 | It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site . |
| 23 | Editors do think explicitly about timing and they are not motivated merely to be the first to print a ‘ scoop ’ : they keep stories until the time is ripe . |
| 24 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 25 | Lawyers said the action for disclosure of the name was believed to be the first of its kind in Britain . |
| 26 | Providing the valuer had been honest and diligent , the court should be cautious before convicting him of professional negligence merely because he had failed to be the first to spot a ‘ sleeper ’ . |
| 27 | RECEIVERS were yesterday appointed to the brewing businesses of the Australian yachting tycoon , Mr Alan Bond , in what may prove to be the first step towards the world 's largest corporate collapse . |
| 28 | On subsequent journeys I would always try to be the first to see it and shout , ‘ There it is , I saw it first ! ’ |
| 29 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 30 | Besides , there is no solid reason to assume that Mr Hussein 's will is going to be the first to break . |