Example sentences of "[art] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Taiwan delegation took part in the fourth national games for ethnic minorities held in Nanning , Guangxi , on Nov. 10-17 , the first to attend a Chinese national sporting event since 1949 . |
| 2 | The people who can really lay a claim on hipness as the first to promote the workwear cause , though , are the Authentic Americana Nuts who want their lives to resemble Happy Days ; the readers of the small ads in a magazine like the biker title Back Street Heroes ; and Scottish rig workers , who have been targeted by foreign workwear companies as the natural customers all along . |
| 3 | UNIFACE CLAIMS TO BE THE FIRST TO SUPPORT IBM 's DB2/6000 |
| 4 | UNIFACE CLAIMS TO BE THE FIRST TO SUPPORT IBM 's DB2/6000 |
| 5 | Public domain class libraries also will be part of the tool catalogue , the first to support ObjectStore being the libraries from the US National Institute of Health . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 7 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 8 | He should not be nervous : by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys ; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights . |
| 9 | The action is slow to build up , but once midway through the first act the melodrama is unleashed layer upon layer , with liberal use of corpses and skeletons — the worms of decomposition having done an admirably speedy job in some cases . |
| 10 | The popular health system was one of the first organized by the popular movement and the revolutionary groups that formed the FMLN in 1980 . |
| 11 | His family had regularly provided MPs for the adjacent borough of Plympton Erle since 1437 ; but in 1597 he became the first to represent the county . |
| 12 | Editors do think explicitly about timing and they are not motivated merely to be the first to print a ‘ scoop ’ : they keep stories until the time is ripe . |
| 13 | He was also the first to print five more Erasmus titles in English or Latin , the latest being Sir Thomas Chaloner 's translation , The praise of folie , 1549 ( STC 10500 ) . |
| 14 | The local 2-fold axis ( represented by the diamond ) passes through one repressor dimer and the centre of the first met box . |
| 15 | The first show the main bone shapes , the second a matchstick with head , ribcage and pelvis indicated as egg shapes . |
| 16 | The first show the main bone shapes , the second a matchstick with head , ribcage and pelvis indicated as egg shapes . |
| 17 | This is surely not only the earliest marble statue we possess but one of the first made . |
| 18 | Our study is the first to enumerate γ-interferon producing cells in sections of human intestine and the results show that a remarkably large proportion of lymphocytes in the lamina propria and epithelium of normal small bowel mucosa contain γ-interferon . |
| 19 | Marie , their high-spirited young nanny , had endless patience with the timid child who was always the first to dissolve into tears . |
| 20 | The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value . |
| 21 | Piaget was not the first to draw our attention to the fact that children 's behaviour is different from mature adult behaviour . |
| 22 | John Michell was the first to draw attention in print to the similarity between such structures , with their layers of organic ( earth ) and inorganic ( rock ) material , to Reich 's orgone energy accumulators . |
| 23 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 24 | June Sheppard was probably the first to draw attention to a planned village . |
| 25 | The first describes the forms of English , spoken and written , at various levels from individual letters or sounds to connected discourse . |
| 26 | Yet Robert Reiner ( 1989 ) , writing on the collective culture of chief constables , is the first to explore their extraordinary place in modern society , simply because as an élite among the powerful in society they have had little need to reveal how they operate , link together , or reveal what structures of significance guide their actions . |
| 27 | He grinned at the enthusiasm ‘ Or that Martel , a French speleologist , was the first to explore these caves in 1896 . |
| 28 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 29 | The first to go was the Alamein . |
| 30 | Northampton were the first to go down this road when they appointed Barrie Corless last year . |