Example sentences of "the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | CLIFF RICHARD and Head of Salvation Army , General Eva Burrows are the first patrons of ACET . |
| 2 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 3 | Many of the first group completed a training course to provide practical help in the home for a small number of people ill with HIV/AIDS . |
| 4 | The first referrals came from Ealing , Acton and surrounding areas . |
| 5 | Both the Borough and Health Authority have supported the work of ACET in Ealing by being among the first to provide financial support . |
| 6 | Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed . |
| 7 | At present , the first £128,000 of any estate is free of inheritance tax . |
| 8 | The releases mark the first improvement in the human rights situation in Malawi for several years . |
| 9 | His was the first reported execution in several months for an offence related to the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 10 | This will be the first UN mechanism with a clear mandate to examine cases of detained prisoners of conscience anywhere in the world . |
| 11 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 12 | In addition we are still receiving enquiries about prisoners featured in the first two series in 1988 and 1989 , and we have recently received a copy of a letter from Alattin Sahin , the Turkish prisoner of conscience in the 1988 , which someone has received on his release . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During the first 11 months of 1990 AI sent 68 delegates to 50 countries ranging from Jordan to Nepal , from the USA to Romania . |
| 15 | The first part of proceeding will be the jury selection , known as the vior dire . |
| 16 | During the period of 1984–5 , more than 2,800 Sri Lankans sought asylum in the UK and in May 1985 , a visa requirement was imposed on the nationals of Sri Lanka , the first time such a requirement was imposed on the nationals of a Commonwealth country . |
| 17 | The first local Amnesty groups ( the still-running Eltham and Hampstead among them ) were formed only months after the launch in May 1961 . |
| 18 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 19 | Harold Wilson was the first to reply — by return post . |
| 20 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 21 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 22 | After the first two chapters , it discusses where and how to read art criticism . |
| 23 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 24 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 25 | Alfred Barr , the first director of the Museum of Modern Art , New York , is exemplary . |
| 26 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 27 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 28 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 29 | These functions have been well carried out by Baedeker guides since the foundation of the German firm in the first part of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |