Example sentences of "first of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a native of southern Europe , but perfectly easy to grow in cool temperate climates , and gets its botanical name from the Latin calends , " the first of every month " , meaning that it can be in bloom throughout the year . |
| 2 | Grace never failed to send a letter on the first of every month , and somehow managed to sound cheerful despite being surrounded by death . |
| 3 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 4 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 5 | The Harvest Holiday , as the report suggested , would be introduced in late October and would be the first of a series of changes to age-hold British holiday customs . |
| 6 | In the first of a two-part series , Michael Edwards selects wines which break the Italian mould |
| 7 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 8 | It was the first of a range of ‘ year beers ’ . |
| 9 | In the first of a regular series , we bring together some of the practical designs and circuits which first appeared in the US magazine EDN . |
| 10 | He said it would be the first of a series of ventures which Gooding was discussing with Japanese companies , aimed at bringing research and technology to Britain rather than just final assembly of goods . |
| 11 | In the first of a monthly series , Michael Jackson hunts in vain |
| 12 | In the Garden : Planning to beat a leafy retreat at home : In the first of a series for novice gardeners , Anna Pavord stresses the value of careful forethought |
| 13 | The Guardian and The Observer published details of the contents of the book in April 1986 and The Sunday Times published the first of a series of extracts in July 1987 . |
| 14 | From the demonstrations of British pluck and enterprise in The Wooden Horse ( 1950 ) , the first of a series of escape pictures , and the celebration of one woman 's heroism in the Anna Neagle-starring Odette ( 1950 ) , through action films such as The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) , The Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 , Pursuit of the Graf Spee in US ) and Sink the Bismark ( 1960 ) , there is a sense of well-known events being played out for an audience that already knew about them . |
| 15 | His Gluck Iphigenie this summer , first of a planned Drottningholm cycle , was self-consciously unobtrusive , almost rough in its stage manners — and as unexciting as his Don Giovanni from the same stable seen in Brighton . |
| 16 | APAP members in London — believed to be seriously disaffected by the association 's stance in the dispute — will be met by an executive member , Mr Peter Kenney , in the first of a series of meetings to rally support for the union amid threats of a revolt following the resignation of the 132-strong Hertfordshire chapter last week . |
| 17 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |
| 18 | It is the first of a rapidly growing family of microscopes based on the idea of moving a needle over a surface to sense its shape . |
| 19 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 20 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 21 | Mike Gatting , first of a long line of England captains in 1988 . |
| 22 | She was the first of a line of ‘ nymphets ’ who would also include Carroll Baker in Baby Doll and be raised to the permanence of art in Nabokov 's Lolita . |
| 23 | In the first of a new series problem-solver , Nigel Colborn , offers some planting solutions to garden hot-spots |
| 24 | Robinson was the first of a new generation of supporters of Paisleyism . |
| 25 | In 1976 , Henry Blake published the first of a number of books that showed that he had studied the horse 's mind in depth . |
| 26 | An evening like most others in that house , but to me the first of a changed life . |
| 27 | He formed the A. S. Neill Society to spread libertarian views on education , and the following year held the first of a series of camps for potential pupils and staff . |
| 28 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 29 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 30 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |