Example sentences of "first [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MoMA show will be the first sizeable examination of this subject in North America and has been curated by Riva Castleman who has written an accompanying brochure . |
| 2 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 3 | Bernard of Pavia 's Compilatio Prima of 1190 first assembled material in this way for general use , dividing the texts into five main sections : ( 1 ) ordination and ecclesiastical offices ; ( 2 ) judicial organization and civil cases ; ( 3 ) matters affecting the clergy ; ( 4 ) marriage ; and ( 5 ) criminal procedure . |
| 4 | For more than thirty-seven years held the important situation of teacher to the first public institution in this country for the education of the deaf and dumb ; which was established in this parish , A.D. 1792 … |
| 5 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 6 | The first serial section from each block was stained by haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 7 | Barnes , who won the last of his eight caps in 1988 , makes his first Divisional appearance since that year and coach Keith Richardson has handed him the captain 's armband , worn by Bath team-mate Andy Robinson last season . |
| 8 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 9 | Published by Arts and Co. , the present catalogue is the first comprehensive treatment of this collection . |
| 10 | Mr Rawlins , 38 , has spent the past seven years working with the Lloyd 's insurance market and was once personal assistant to the first chief executive of that community , Ian Hay Davison . |
| 11 | In the first exact solution of this type , given by Bell and Szekeres ( 1974 ) , the singularity on the hypersurface was shown to be only a coordinate singularity that could easily be removed by a coordinate transformation . |
| 12 | If SBUs with largely separate commercial lives can not be identified , or are misidentified , the first basic requirement of this type of analysis is not met and there is little point continuing with the technique . |
| 13 | GEORGE Harrison gave his first full-length concert in this country last night since the Beatles last performed together in 1969 . |
| 14 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson condemned the new rule that will get its first major exposure in this country . |
| 15 | The first major case in this area was Feely [ 1973 ] QB 530 . |
| 16 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 17 | Narin 's seminal Report to the Foundation , carried out by Computer Horizons Inc. on data from the Science Citation Index , represents the first major effort by any country 's scientific policy-makers , to use bibliometric indicators to forecast and plan research expenditure on a national scale , although Price had , in 1969 , related the size of a country 's scientific literature to its Gross National Product ( GNP ) . |
| 18 | Roberta M. Olson Ottocento : romanticism and revolution in nineteenth-century Italian painting ( The American Federation of Arts and Centro Di , New York and Florence , 1992 ) 293pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. $67.95 Catalogue of the first major exhibition on this topic to be seen by an American audience since 1949 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 22 , November 1992 , p.11 ) . |
| 19 | The Press Code further requires that the first printed copy of each issue be submitted to the Ministry of Interior which can then intervene to stop distribution . |
| 20 | The first important difference between such research and the earlier laboratory work is that in such research the items to be remembered are generally themselves the source of arousal . |
| 21 | It was Tylor who first taught anthropology under this name at Oxford in 1884 and he carried forward and extended some of the theoretically more important strands in Morgan 's work . |
| 22 | The first minuted meeting of that committee was held in the Prince of Wales coffee house , Conduit Street , Hanover Square , on 3 November 1790 . |
| 23 | It was his first live performance of any note since 1969 . |
| 24 | Stewart 's dismissal — Liverpool 's first in Europe since Kenny Dalglish was given his marching orders against Benfica eight years ago — took the gloss off the Merseyside club 's first away win in any competition since January 18 . |
| 25 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 26 | Under the eight-day ruling the first available date for another replay between Portsmouth and Liverpool was May 4 . |
| 27 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 28 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 29 | The prize awaiting the winner of that one is a first round battle with former world indoor singles champion John Price of Wales . |
| 30 | The prize awaiting the winner of that one is a first round battle with former world indoor singles champion John Price of Wales . |