Example sentences of "[art] [noun] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
| 2 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 3 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 4 | In the Netherlands the First Chamber approved ratification of the Treaty by acclamation on Dec. 15 [ for November approval by Second Chamber see p. 39205 ] . |
| 5 | Graham Taylor selected Clough as it became clear that Nottingham Forest have finally signed a transfer form which makes the striker the first summer addition to Souness 's squad . |
| 6 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 7 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 8 | Then Shelley felt a shiver of anticipation , as she remembered the effect the first sight of the handsome Miguelito had on her . |
| 9 | This is equal to Integrating by parts gives In the brackets the first term is zero because — " vanishes at the surface . |
| 10 | With the fall of the village the first phase of the battle ended , and an even grimmer one began . |
| 11 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 12 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
| 13 | In kinship relations such as the avunculate the first order elements are the family relationship terms of father , uncle , mother , son , nephew . |
| 14 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 15 | From then there would be seven hours of golf , from the moment the first pro drove off till the final putt dropped on the 18th green . |
| 16 | Over the years the first edition ( 1954 ) of this work has acquired something of the aura of a ‘ classic ’ text , and one or other of the editions is never likely to stray far from the student petrographer 's microscope . |
| 17 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
| 18 | On the landing the first door on the left opened up a walk-in cupboard . |
| 19 | I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time . |
| 20 | The take-over the first time a South African bank has bought a British bank values Ansbacher at £57.8m . |
| 21 | And she was taken away then in when the war the first world war began |
| 22 | Earlier in the evening the first year food technology student , who had heart surgery in 1987 , had been at a disco in the Students Union . |
| 23 | In each of the appeals the first question is whether a procedural irregularity has occurred . |
| 24 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 25 | As can be seen , the bond equivalent yield is always less than the simple equivalent yield because with the bond the first coupon payment can be reinvested , whereas this possibility is not available for a discount security , which therefore has to have a higher yield to compensate . |
| 26 | When she came round after the anaesthetic the first thing she says to the nurse is , Well , was I or was n't I ? |
| 27 | The Time Warner AxS arm of Time Warner Inc has bought a 50% stake in MetroComm Inc , builder and operator of a fibre optic competitive telephone access network in Columbus , Ohio on undisclosed terms ; the company will be known as MetroComm AxS and the alliance the first step in a Time Warner programme to enter the long-distance access business . |
| 28 | King Idomeneus of Crete , caught in a storm at sea on his way home , vows to Neptune that if he is spared he will sacrifice to the gods the first person he meets on landing — which turns out to be , of course , his own son , Idamantes . |
| 29 | There was even the ruby the first earl gave his wife to celebrate the title bestowed by James Stuart in 1604 , but she would have liked a ring . |
| 30 | He had been in the boot the first time , and masked on the floor of the back seat the second . |