Example sentences of "is in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 2 | ‘ The Association is not a universal provider … its mission … is in the first place to the educationally underprivileged … it must include a substantial body of work sufficiently intensive and prolonged to exercise a permanent influence on students . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 4 | The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large . |
| 5 | Descartes ' dreaming argument is in the first of his Meditations ; use the Haldane and Ross edition ( Descartes , 1955 ) or any reputable alternative . |
| 6 | When the node is in the first layer , then xj is sj . |
| 7 | ‘ He is in the first penitentiary cell , close to the passage to the infirmary , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 8 | The interrelations of the meanings and associations of words within a text ( ‘ the dimension of coherence ’ ) is in the first place , one' might say , a purely mental event , but its effect is to modify , enrich or enlarge the reader 's experience of the realities to which these meanings and associations refer . |
| 9 | This country is in the first rank of the European Community and will remain so . |
| 10 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 11 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 12 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 13 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |