Example sentences of "[art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play .
32 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 .
33 In the first session the group chose the topic of hospitals in the future .
34 She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress .
35 One important objective of counselling was to improve communication within the family , which was achieved in the first session when the therapist took a supportive but firm approach and encouraged the patient to talk to her parents then .
36 The first session was arranged for 4 days later .
37 The first session took place 1 week later .
38 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 .
39 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 .
40 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 .
41 And I always spend the greater part of the first session explaining just what is going to happen and how he is going to feel ; as a result I hope that , by the time we begin the hypnosis itself , the patient will have had all his questions answered and his fears allayed , and will have begun to feel confidence in me and what I am about to do .
42 Past-life regression : the first session
43 The first session costs around £35 for one-and-a-half hours and then you 'll pay £25 for subsequent treatments .
44 Breaks of 59 and 92 gave McManus a perfect start , and he had stretched his lead to 6-2 by the end of the first session .
45 During the first session it is important for all family members to have their say .
46 Did n't you spend the first session deciding whether to include that little pre-position ?
47 The first session will include the sale of a number of eighteenth-century istoriato plaques and a number of albarelli .
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda .
51 The first session is used for introductions and for setting up a framework for the course .
52 These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council .
53 The implication is that Pope John sided with the minority at the first session and was ‘ upset ’ ( as the minority often asserted ) at the rejection of such excellent drafts .
54 This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew .
55 The first session was in danger of ending in chaos and frustration when a series of planned interventions , approved by Pope John , rescued it .
56 THE YEAR 1962 : THE FIRST SESSION
57 Some two hundred periti were summoned to the first session , but by April 1963 the number had reached 348 .
58 What is absolutely sure is that Montini , even during the first session when Pope John was alive , provided the plan that saved the Council from chaos and then , on becoming pope , saw it patiently through to the end despite formidable difficulties .
59 No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ .
60 When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure .
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