Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , you will best get there by squeezing all you can out of every position you hold and out of the experience of every man you serve or meet : pick their brains , study their successes and their failures ; never be afraid to ask questions or put new ideas , but do not get upset or angry if they are not accepted at first , and do not assume that the other man 's judgment is wrong . |
| 2 | After the given date , the same change may well have diffused to other dialects that were not affected at first , and Labov 's well-known work ( for example , 1980 ) on short /a/ in the northern United States suggests that this EModE change is still in progress there today . |
| 3 | In his younger , more confident days he could quip that ‘ formalism is the name given to music not understood on first hearing ’ ; but by 1948 he was less resilient , and the situation more threatening . |
| 4 | If the litigant was not assisted at first instance , or before one of the appellate tribunals , a full application for a legal aid certificate must be made . |
| 5 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |