Example sentences of "first and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even an understanding husband may feel resentment if his wife is a mother first and a wife second . |
| 3 | Examine and agree on a job description first and a contract of employment which you are satisfied with and understand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The DTI says you are a company first and a charity next , but we say we are a charity first . |
| 6 | ‘ This was a challenge first and a race second , ’ said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The clean outline of the rectangular Central Court was established first and the sanctuary suites aggregated round it . |
| 12 | The year 's trial run begins on November the first and the service will be free to rail-users . |
| 13 | The outer , harder sole is moulded first and the second , shock-absorbing layer is added to it . |
| 14 | McAteer with the first and the second was entirely down to Lee who exploited the goalkeeper 's crumbling self-confidence . |
| 15 | The dragon-ships of midstream , abandoning the dead in the first and the second , thrust forward and , turning rapidly in , ran up on shore further upriver and began to land men fast , under a renewed fall of arrows . |
| 16 | Stalinists and Trotskyites and Anarchists all putting their feuds first and the fight against Fascism second . |
| 17 | I had other pet lambs , but Nanny Bateson was the first and the best-remembered . |
| 18 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 19 | You got a bit of training first and the adventure took a whole afternoon . |
| 20 | I 's eat all the chocolate first and the inside afterwards |
| 21 | That means political unpopularity for the first and the wrath of the ERM for the second . |
| 22 | Another constable now joined the first and the chairman was getting fidgety . |
| 23 | Kelly jumped , whilst Beeney cam to punch , unfortunately Kelly just got there first and the ball fell into the goal . |
| 24 | Years later his eldest daughter Catherine commented , " The Army came first and the position was accepted by all of us as part of the existing order . " |
| 25 | ‘ The reason that they 're sparse is because when I 'm singing it 's kind of hard to be very rhythmic , so it 's the voice first and the guitar parts fitting around that , with the whole thing being locked together by a pretty solid and very basic groove . ’ |
| 26 | For example , midday on Sunday until midday on the following Sunday could be called eight days , rather than seven , as eight days were involved , even though the first and the last were incomplete . |
| 27 | He reached the bottom first and the teapot , a close second , hit him on the head and smashed , spilling luke-warm tea down his navy-blue shirt . |
| 28 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 29 | One method of avoiding the operation of the rule is to reverse the order of the two parts of the clause so that the general words are placed first and the list of specific items are prefaced by a phrase like " for example " , or " without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing " , or " such as " . |
| 30 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |