Sentence examples for basically a first from inspiring English sources
"It was basically a First Amendment issue," Sergeant Showler said.
It's basically a first screen.
IT IS basically a second stimulus, though no one wants to call it that.
After Franco, they were dumped out of what was basically a nineteenth-century aesthetic into the world of late-twentieth-century commercial trash.
The magic lantern was basically a seventeenth-century slide projector: a light source (a candle), an image (a piece of painted glass), and a lens.
He's worth signing to a hefty but safe Kevin Kolb-like contract, where a team pays big upfront but allocates a bulk of the cash into what is basically a second-year option.
In 1481, Caxton brought out "The History of Reynard the Fox," a translation — by him, into his late Middle English — of what was basically a thirteenth-century Dutch version.
I did think there was supposed to be a more relaxed, more celebratory feel to the closing ceremony than the first, but this was basically a second opening ceremony, but I'm not going to dismiss this effort on a technicality.
Where I work is an office not a study, basically a second bedroom at home, a narrow sliver in a small postwar block of flats on a hill in north London facing two much larger blocks slightly hidden by London plane trees which are pollarded into lollipops every couple of years.
The 42mm watch has a Miyota quartz movement, UTC display (basically a second time-zone), and a chronograph movement.
