Example sentences of "[art] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the move up-market started anywhere , it was on Saturday 4 July 1981 , when SLOA ran the first PSLC over the Settle & Carlisle and down the Appleby-Warcop branch , for what now seems a very modest fare of £15 first class , £12 second class from London ( Euston ) , together with a tray meal at £2 ! |
| 2 | I may be the first challenger for Lennox , so it 's not surprising that I 'm behind Bowe . ’ |
| 3 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 4 | Neil Blender and Billy Ruff were the first pros from the States to skate the ramp . |
| 5 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 6 | Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) . |
| 7 | She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year . |
| 8 | The first close-up in Straw Dogs is of Susan George 's nipples , seen through a fetching sweater , which have the male townsfolk , young and old , leering . |
| 9 | The first body-blow to this belief was dealt by Kinsey , Pomeroy and Martin , who concluded that , far from a high-point of sexual feeling and tension existing only in the earlier adult years and continuing only to around the mid-fifties , sexuality and sexual activity decline after youth only in the most gradual way , with no set or probable point of cessation . |
| 10 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 11 | None of this , though , for Ifor or for Cis or , I presume , for the rest of the family , was to be compared with the fact that Richard Walter Jenkins Junior , aged eleven , passed a scholarship to the Secondary School and went there : the first Jenkins of that line ever to do so . |
| 12 | In my view , these figurines are evidence of the first consequences of the coming Neolithic trauma — the beginning of weaning and the loss of the primal mothers . |
| 13 | Severe recent flooding in the Andes was one of the first consequences of El Niñshow the impact of global warming , with a 0.041° C mean increase between 1963 and 1990 . |
| 14 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 15 | In practice , the first session of the inter-governental conference will be attached to the Rome EC summit next December , although serious bargaining will only start some months later . |
| 16 | In practice , the first session of the inter-governmental conference will be attached to the Rome EC summit next December , although serious bargaining will only start some months later . |
| 17 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 18 | Board results of the strongest club match played this year : GM Hubner 1–0 GM Christiansen ; GM Yusupov 1–0 GM Lutz ; GM Ribli DRAW GM Hort ; GM Hertneck DRAW GM Vaganian ; GM Bonsch 0–1 GM Hickl ; GM Bischoff 1–0 GM Knaak ; IM Stangl 0–1 GM Vogt ; IM Schlosser DRAW IM Jackelen ; 4.5–3.5 England 's strongest league , the London League , was effectively decided on Tuesday when King 's Head , based at the pub of the same name in Moscow Road , Bayswater , achieved a 5–2 lead in the first session of play against Wood Green . |
| 19 | From May 16 — 29 , however , he will be hosting the first session of amatory writing courses at the European Centre for Holistic Studies on the Greek island of Skyros — very apt for someone preoccupied with sex , death and the Oedipus complex . |
| 20 | Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament . |
| 21 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |
| 22 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 23 | This week the hearing reached a milestone with the first session of full cross-examination — a baptism of fire for the Department of Energy , which surprised everyone by agreeing to be interrogated on the full gamut of Whitehall 's current thinking on energy policy . |
| 24 | At the first session of the court in January 1869 he gave judgement to James Sprinks , who had sued Harry Carroll for 7s 6d to be paid the full amount plus almost as much in costs , 6s 3d . |
| 25 | I hope that , in the first session of the next parliament , there will be less of the constant bickering and exchange of insults which marred the last sessions of the previous House of Commons . |
| 26 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 27 | When the London Mercers ' Company presented a petition attacking clerical malpractice to the first session of that parliament , Henry allowed it to be transformed into three statutes , which curbed abuses in the areas of pluralism and non-residence , and in the exaction of probate and mortuary fees . |
| 28 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 29 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 30 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |