Example sentences of "the first [verb] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first tells of a man who found some buried treasure in a field . |
| 2 | On the night of their escape , Moses had commanded the Jews to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the doorposts of their homes as a sign that they were to be ‘ passed over ’ by the Angel of Death , who was to bring death to the first born of every Egyptian family . |
| 3 | It 's one of the first meets of the season . |
| 4 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 5 | The first consisted of an analysis of curriculum content and teaching methods conducted by questionnaire . |
| 6 | Two classes of category were identified : the first consisted of the 41 types occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 2 word positions , to capture those words in close grammatical construction with the node . |
| 7 | 4.1 The period of the licences shall begin on the date of this Agreement and end on whichever is the first to occur of the following : |
| 8 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 9 | The sky remained clear and the first starts of the evening were already apparent in the inky space above our heads . |
| 10 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 11 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 12 | The first consists of the Proconsulidae at node 0 and includes Proconsul , for which the best evidence is available . |
| 13 | The nucleus of the first consists of the preludes on chorales associated with the Lutheran mass ( Kyrie and Gloria ) and the larger ( pedaliter ) catechism preludes . |