Example sentences of "but [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting the people free took longer than anticipated , but the first casualties were those identity cards and the Festival site , in 1952 . |
| 2 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Exactly how long Hughes lived at 94 Portland Street , London , is uncertain but the first experiments which led to the development of the microphone were conducted here during 1878–80 . |
| 4 | It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 . |
| 5 | But the first auctions to be held after the traditional annual Christmas and January economic freeze showed the market to be surprisingly buoyant . |
| 6 | But the first visitors did find intelligent life within the planet , in a vast hallowed-out area that has as much land area as some smaller worlds . |
| 7 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
| 8 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 9 | Internal interpretation was orthodox ; but the first principles were radical enough to assure a development beyond the conventions of civil law . |
| 10 | But the first inklings of the new policy have already emerged with the coffee room being segregated into smoking and non smoking areas . |
| 11 | But the first rumblings of serious criticism had started to sound — the honeymoon period was over . |
| 12 | But the first computers that can learn by discovery are with us ; the Fifth Generation computers in Japan ‘ understand ’ rather than just process information . |
| 13 | Moscow , 700 miles ( 1,000km ) from the border , was almost reached but the first snows slowed the Germans who , at the end of November , froze 20 miles ( 30+km ) west of Moscow , and by December the Russian front ran 2,000 miles ( 3,200km ) from Leningrad to the Caucasus . |
| 14 | No one knew it then , but the first shadows of a terrible war were gathering , hidden by the glory of an Empire that coloured one-fifth of the map of the planet Imperial Red . |
| 15 | London Transport decided to standardize on a 70 seater six-wheeler , but the first batches for the Croydon area and Bexley area , were to be slightly smaller and 60 seaters . |