Example sentences of "[art] first [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 2 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 3 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 4 | Run the repeats at a steady tempo but , as with the hill repeats , build into the workout by running the first a little easier than the rest . |
| 5 | The two contentions can seem analogous , but the second concerns overt motive , the first a highly arguable interpretation . |
| 6 | Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) is superb , giving two contrasting pitches : the first a steep , technical wall , the top an awkward and bold overhanging corner . |
| 7 | Produced to accompany the exhibition at the Frick , New York , earlier this year ( closed 21 August ) , it draws on two private collections , the first a mixed group of views ranging from Carlton House to a Russian dacha ; the second , the Wittgenstein family album , a rare complete survivor of this genre with watercolours by various artists produced between 1834 and 1843 , depicting the Wittgenstein family homes in Rome , Naples , Potsdam , Berlin , Paris , Geneva , Poland , the Ukraine and Russia . |
| 8 | Two movements this time : the first a clever little fantasy on Papageno 's bird-call figure — easy to follow , but just pungent enough to raise the music out of background blandness ; the second knottier , more amorphous and , for me , much less rewarding . |
| 9 | In the first a company or industry discerns the need for a new product or product range , develops markets and sells to the widest possible market . |
| 10 | Two examples will be offered , the first a simple one concerning the flight of bats , the second a more ambitious one concerning the progress of physics . |
| 11 | HarperCollins weighs in with the A format of Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts ' Mistress of Empire ( £4.99 ) , while The Curse of the Mistwraith ( £8.99 ) sees Wurts on her own with the first a new series . |
| 12 | A number were of the same place , some old village with nobody in it , the first a shot down a dusty road and the rest of individual buildings or , in some cases , of open fields enclosed by split-rail fencing . |
| 13 | Two prizes will be offered at each show , the first a £50 voucher to be used at the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's sale in August and the second a voucher to the value of £25 . |
| 14 | In the first a female employee received a potentially fatal electric shock of perhaps five and a half thousand volts while testing ovens for high voltage leakage . |
| 15 | In the first a house door was kicked in . |
| 16 | TWO Italian civil engineering firms have won a £23.4 million contract to upgrade part of the A74 Glasgow to Carlisle route , the first a major motorway contract awarded in Scotland to European companies . |
| 17 | Give special attention to the first and last paragraphs and the first an last sentences of your answer . |
| 18 | The first the trainer knew of the impending purchase was when a fax from Minton was found in his office last Wednesday . |
| 19 | In answer to the first the chief told me they were not allowed to divulge such information : it was classified . |
| 20 | Two are more difficult , because in the first the jurist uses the substantive legatum , which it is much less easy to take to refer to a trust ; and in the second what is involved is a legacy per praeceptionem . |
| 21 | The first the Movement knew of Beno 's trouble was when a sharp-eyed refugee worker spotted a news item in the Evening Standard . |
| 22 | However , thought she , it would be right to take the children , which I did — thus proving , not for the first the last time , I 'd be wasting my time applying for the Mensa test . |
| 23 | Korean establishments were the first the crowd seems to have made for . |
| 24 | The nice embalmer who wrote to me told me , greatly to his credit , of the totally unnecessary embalming that is frequently carried out , so that the first the next-of-kin knows about it is when he or she receives the bill . |
| 25 | In the first the message is received in full and is then given out to the person ; in the second the message is received and is simultaneously translated into the second language . |
| 26 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 27 | In the first the press is expressly refused permission to print the name of the raped woman . |
| 28 | What is most noteworthy here is that at every stage after the first the exhaustive ballot enables voters to vote knowledgeably . |
| 29 | From the first the government made every effort to exclude any knowledge or discussion of the French Revolution ; Floridablanca 's cordon sanitaire was the strictest in Europe ; in 1791 he suspended the entire periodical press and kept a careful watch on the large French colony in Spain . |
| 30 | In the first the record that is added is inserted into its correct position in the file , and the record at the end of the track to which it was added drops off into overflow . |