Example sentences of "first of [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has first of all a touching proclivity to awe-struck admiration of whatever is presented to him as noble by a constituted authority ; and , secondly , a complete absence of any immediate reaction to a work of art until his judgement has thus been hypnotized by the voice of authority … |
| 2 | The support from one 's functional colleagues requires first of all a high degree of mutuality of respect for each other 's expertise and a shared acceptance of the objective that you are trying to achieve . |
| 3 | There is no solution for the conflict in Africa , or in the world , unless there is first of all a change in the heart and understanding of man … |
| 4 | of the Curriculum Advice and Support Team ( CAST ) at Jordanhill College of Education is a member of the Advanced Courses Task Group and was closely involved in the HN unit development , producing first of all a unit in the field of engineering . |
| 5 | As de Gaulle told the leadership of the new African state of Mali , " There is no international reality which is not first of all a national reality . " |
| 6 | This was not an attack upon Wray but first of all a defensive action to prevent Wray from causing really serious injury to his friend . |
| 7 | But early on you see he when I before the war he 'd nothing was first of all a push bike |
| 8 | He is first of all a saviour ! |
| 9 | yes , I mean , in contra-distinction to that , first of all a number of these increased charges , like fifty p for a journey to a day centre , they are standard practice in other counties . |
| 10 | The course is divided into two parts , first of all a part that I shall be conducting , dealing with more professional use of the telephone : that 's how you use the telephone , what you say , and how you use it in that way , how you answer the telephone . |
| 11 | In 1973 , under the direction of the Scottish Development Department , the old County Council of Orkney commissioned a firm of planning consultants to draw up first of all an interim strategy and then a Structure Plan to cope with the consequences surrounding the construction of an oil-terminal on the island of Flotta , and with the possibility of further North Sea oil activity taking place within the county . |
| 12 | The Nazi regime was first of all an occult ‘ order ’ , with its underlying motive being the achievement of human perfection through the destruction of the old decadent order to create a new dimension in human potentiality . |
| 13 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 14 | Well , we 're anxious that there is n't an escalation of this crisis , that it may be dealed with as Brigadier Harbottle has written in a letter to the Guardian today , dealt with , er more through first of all an attempt by the Arab nations to come to some agreement amongst themselves and agreement which will satisfy them and be a more long-lasting one . |
| 15 | In the first of these a group of libraries cooperate because of a factor or factors which they hold in common — usually their subject field or their geographical location . |
| 16 | In the first of these a great deal of effort has gone into the development of exact theories of continua under conditions of complete generality . |