Utiliser "first-rate" dans une phrase

1. greatness, this means to have first-rate

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2. As a crowd pleaser they were outstanding for their cause was first-rate

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3. It gave rise to their first-rate (some say infamous) Counter Insurgency Units (SAP COIN) which would greatly trouble terrorists for the next twenty odd years

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4. Since the Rhodesian Police kept first-rate files on each incident the trail of torture, rape and general bestiality is very well documented

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5. Furthermore they had a first-rate armaments industry and needed very little outside assistance in this regard and the political will to conduct pre-emptive strikes into neighbouring countries when needed

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6. They were served a first-rate Zurek soup by a maid whom the Countess addressed as Helga

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7. is first-rate and is recognized throughout the

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8. 1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar like a first-rate pilot steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death

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9. A first-rate example of this government-knows-best mentality for people’s health is the present blatant attempt by some in government to dictate how much and what type of food is best for people to be trim and healthy

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10. Evading custody was one thing but to also steal a first-rate dreadnought in the process was unheard of

11. A big ship, first-rate, Imperial crew, you couldn't miss it

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12. "But you don't waltz into our system with a first-rate stolen Imperial ship with a thousand crew and not escape our notice

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13. "You don't have to be a first-rank mathematician to recognize first-rate

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14. Lester’s a first-rate, harvest technician, clocking his second, ten-hour shift

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15. Although the materialists are quite correct that tests to prove the competence of astrologers are usually embarrassing failures, the fault, Dear Brutus, lies not in astrology but in the stigma which the materialists have heaped upon astrology, so that very few first-rate minds are attracted to the field

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16. He is a first-rate guy

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17. An admirable plan, Edward considered; a first-rate plan

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18. You need to ask first-rate questions that make your client think

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19. And unbeknownst to me, for the second time in my life and in a week’s time, another first-rate dweller of Pineview Street walked off with my life in their hands

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20. "She is first-rate," he said

21. His pulse is first-rate

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22. Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, "want to read it? That's a first-rate story

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23. As they grew up, the father of Quiteria made up his mind to refuse Basilio his wonted freedom of access to the house, and to relieve himself of constant doubts and suspicions, he arranged a match for his daughter with the rich Camacho, as he did not approve of marrying her to Basilio, who had not so large a share of the gifts of fortune as of nature; for if the truth be told ungrudgingly, he is the most agile youth we know, a mighty thrower of the bar, a first-rate wrestler, and a great ball-player; he runs like a deer, and leaps better than a goat, bowls over the nine-pins as if by magic, sings like a lark, plays the guitar so as to make it speak, and, above all, handles a sword as well as the best

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24. A youngster of seventeen was cox (and a first-rate cox he was too); a fellow in a torn blue jersey, not much older, of the usual riverside type, looked after the engine

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25. And yet what greater proof can there be of a bad and disgraceful state of education than this, that not only artisans and the meaner sort of people need the skill of first-rate physicians and judges, but also those who would profess to have had a liberal education?

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26. Why, I said, the principle has been already laid down that the best of either sex should be united with the best as often, and the inferior with the inferior, as seldom as possible; and that they should rear the offspring of the one sort of union, but not of the other, if the flock is to be maintained in first-rate condition

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27. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost: rendered worse than unavailing

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28. " The young man took the helm, felt to see if the vessel answered the rudder promptly and seeing that, without being a first-rate sailer, she yet was tolerably obedient,—

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29. Two or three masks strove to knock his moccoletto out of his hand; but Albert, a first-rate pugilist, sent them rolling in the street, one after the other, and continued his course towards the church of San Giacomo

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30. From this humble state he had raised himself until he had become a first-rate artiste

31. Her husband, who, when he married her, had no other patrimony than his noble probity, his first-rate ability, and his spotless reputation, wished to possess as much as his wife

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32. She was a perfect linguist, a first-rate artist, wrote poetry, and composed music; to the study of the latter she professed to be entirely devoted, following it with an indefatigable perseverance, assisted by a schoolfellow,—a young woman without fortune whose talent promised to develop into remarkable powers as a singer

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33. I established with myself, on these occasions, the reputation of a first-rate man of business,—prompt, decisive, energetic, clear, cool-headed

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34. "Certainly," continued Monte Cristo, "I make three assortments in fortune—first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate fortunes

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35. I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one's hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions; I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing

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36. That sausage you toasted was his, and he was in all respects a first-rater

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37. She said that was first-rate, and she reckoned I would hive the next one

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38. He had always been accustomed to rely Blackberry's reasoning had been first-rate and Bigwig had at least shown which way any sound-hearted rabbit would be likely to lean

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39. 'First-rate!' said the Chairman

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40. You have a first-rate intellect

41. He had police protection and a first-rate security system

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42. Donovan had filed the lawsuit as a lone gunman with the promise that other plaintiffs’ lawyers would soon hop on board to form a first-rate litigation team

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43. ‘Have you got a sledge? That’s first-rate, for I sent my carriage home

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44. ‘And I think you would be a first-rate medium,’ said Countess Nordston; ‘there’s something enthusiastic in you

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45. was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov

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46. So you had a nice day too? That’s first-rate

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47. In this case the matter was simplified by Brunton's intelligence being quite first-rate, so that it was unnecessary to make any allowance for the personal equation, as the astronomers have dubbed it

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48. ‘His hind-quarters aren’t quite first-rate, but the legs and head—one couldn’t wish for anything better

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49. A first-rate intellect, sir

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50. As you blow a candle out, sir! There was a first-rate driver on the foot-plate, sir, I can tell you

51. ‘It’s first-rate working with his excellency,’ said the architect with a smile (he was respectful and composed, though with a sense of his own dignity)

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52. They—that is, Vronsky— had a trainer, an Englishman, first-rate in his own line, but a drunkard

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53. The Vicar was a first-rate billiard-player, and though he did not frequent the Green Dragon, there were reports that he had sometimes been there in the daytime and had won money

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54. "Your horses of the Sun," he said, "And first-rate whip Apollo! Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head, But I will beat them hollow

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55. Twenty-four hours ago he had thought that instead of needing to know what he should do, he should by this time know that he needed to do nothing: that he should hunt in pink, have a first-rate hunter, ride to cover on a fine hack, and be generally respected for doing so; moreover, that he should be able at once to pay Mr

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56. A bride (who is going to visit at a baronet's) must have a few first-rate pocket-handkerchiefs; but beyond the absolutely necessary halfdozen, Rosamond contented herself without the very highest style of embroidery and Valenciennes

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57. Hence it seemed desirable that Lydgate should by-and-by get some first-rate position elsewhere than in Middlemarch; and this could hardly be difficult in the case of a man who had a titled uncle and could make discoveries

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58. me to make a first-rate thing of the shop

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59. "Lord bless you, I knew all about 'em—a little in what you may call the respectable thieving line—the high style of receiving-house— none of your holes and corners—first-rate

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60. He made first-rate strokes himself, and began to bet against Lydgate's strokes, the strain of whose nerves was thus changed from simple confidence in his own movements to defying another person's doubt in them

61. But that would not have been opposed to ordinary prescriptions, even of first-rate men

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62. And this is first-rate salted pork

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63. Since in late-1971 it is possible to find first-rate corporate bonds to yield 7¼%, and even more, it would not make much sense to buy second-grade issues merely for the higher return they offer

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64. Hanni had detailed that horror show with his first-rate expertise, as he was doing now with the remains of a fatal fire that looked to be a triple homicide

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65. Life in the regiment, during this campaign, was all the pleasanter for him, because, after his loss to Dolokhov (for which, in spite of all his family’s efforts to console him, he could not forgive himself), he had made up his mind to atone for his fault by serving, not as he had done before, but really well, and by being a perfectly first-rate comrade and officer- in a word, a splendid man altogether, a thing which seemed so difficult out in the world, but so possible in the regiment

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66. ‘It’s a fine thing! First-rate!’

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67. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate quality

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68. Fairfax’s aid, replaced my black stuff dress by one of black silk; the best and the only additional one I had, except one of light grey, which, in my Lowood notions of the toilette, I thought too fine to be worn, except on first-rate occasions

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69. His brain is first-rate, I should think not impressible, but vigorous

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70. Because we're looking for companies generating substantial free cash flow, we put a significant premium on managers who are first-rate capital allocators and who have our interests at heart

71. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford’s wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women

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72. Yates; on the comic, Tom Bertram, not quite alone, because it was evident that Mary Crawford's wishes, though politely kept back, inclined the same way: but his determinateness and his power seemed to make allies unnecessary; and, independent of this great irreconcilable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first-rate, and three principal women

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73. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power

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74. My room-mate was introduced to me by the jailer as "a first-rate fellow and a clever man

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75. ‘She is first-rate,’ he said

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76. General Baron Delsome, a first-rate officer, received three bullet wounds and was killed

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77. "Poor Mironoff!" said he, when I had done my sad story; "'tis a pity! he was a goot officer! And Matame Mironoff, she was a goot lady and first-rate at pickled mushrooms

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78. "And I think you would be a first-rate medium," said Countess Nordston; "there's something enthusiastic in you

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79. Petritsky, whom he liked, was implicated in the affair, and the other culprit was a capital fellow and first-rate comrade, who had lately joined the regiment, the young Prince Kedrov

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80. So you had a nice day too? That's first-rate

81. "Yes; I used to teach in it myself, and do teach still, but we have a first-rate schoolmistress now

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82. He turned out a first-rate cook

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83. It's first-rate soup, they know how to make it here

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84. “To Plotnikov's shop—first-rate!” cried Mitya, as though struck by an idea

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85. I went back to my bed, lay down and thought, ‘If Grigory Vassilyevitch has been killed outright it may be a bad job for me, but if he is not killed and recovers, it will be first-rate, for then he'll bear witness that Dmitri Fyodorovitch has been here, and so he must have killed him and taken the money

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86. Arina Prohorovna ruled by sternness not by kindness, but she was first-rate at her work

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87. Oh, Heavens! but where could you find a lovelier cap? It was quite first-rate

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88. Life in the regiment, during this campaign, was all the pleasanter for him, because, after his loss to Dólokhov (for which, in spite of all his family’s efforts to console him, he could not forgive himself), he had made up his mind to atone for his fault by serving, not as he had done before, but really well, and by being a perfectly first-rate comrade and officer—in a word, a splendid man altogether, a thing which seemed so difficult out in the world, but so possible in the regiment

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89. “It’s a fine thing! First-rate!”

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90. “These Germans are first-rate fools, don’t you think so, Monsieur Pierre?” he concluded

91. I would abridge the British maritime power, raise Prussia and Austria to first-rate powers, and preserve the integrity of the Empire of Russia

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