Example sentences of "first [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 2 | He realised first that a muon in the vicinity of a hydrogen atom would orbit 207 times nearer to the central nucleus than would the electron , and so the muon would get inside the electron 's orbit and take over the electrical attraction of the proton ; it is an atomic ‘ excuse me ’ dance routine . |
| 3 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
| 4 | Even an understanding husband may feel resentment if his wife is a mother first and a wife second . |
| 5 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 6 | Tell somebody that ‘ It 's just a joke ’ , ‘ It 's supposed to be a poem ’ , ‘ No speeches please ’ or ‘ Let's have the meeting first and a chat later ’ and they will process or produce the discourse quite differently . |
| 7 | The DTI says you are a company first and a charity next , but we say we are a charity first . |
| 8 | ‘ This was a challenge first and a race second , ’ said . |
| 9 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 11 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 12 | He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America . |
| 13 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 14 | First because a recovery of the histories of perversion precisely disarticulates the sexological and psychoanalytic classifications which would lump together as perversions homosexuality , incest , bestiality , etc . |
| 15 | Matthew Hunt converted a penalty after five minutes ; then Fowler netted his first after a move started by Nikki Harman . |
| 16 | The company 's interest in content is likely to emerge slowly , rationalised at first as a willingness to make suggestions in the event a product of its new venture , Digital Domain , contains salacious material . |
| 17 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |