Example sentences of "is [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 3 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 4 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 5 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 6 | This is the first big lesson to learn . |
| 7 | The Irish language as the national language is the first official language . |
| 8 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 9 | If your correct entry is the first to be drawn you 'll be driving away a fantastic new Renault Clio RT 1.4 voted Car of the Year ! |
| 10 | Also flowering mid-season , ‘ Bountiful ’ is the first new cooker for 55 years . |
| 11 | If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing . |
| 12 | One of the most critical times in any inexperienced pilot 's flying career is the first flight in a new type of single-seater glider . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is the first duty of any coach arriving at a competition to get hold of a current draw sheet , identify the areas on which his entries will be competing and confirm the timetable . |
| 15 | And that is the first thing . |
| 16 | According to Jewish calculation , the year of Leonard 's birth was 5694 , in the month of Tishri ( the biblical name is Ethanim ) , which is the first month of the religious year with several of the most important religious festivals in it : New Year 's Day itself ; the 10 Days of Penitence prior to Yom Kippur ( the Day of Atonement ) ; and the pilgrimage festival known as Succoth , also known as the Feast of Booths ( or Tabernacles or Ingathering ) which is a harvest festival , an especially colourful and joyous one traditionally , in which the priestly activities in the Temple climaxed . |
| 17 | The TV 470 is the first pocket television in the range to incorporate a new auto tuning system . |
| 18 | That is the first aim of learning to drill a twenty-stroke rally , chasing and returning the ball on one bounce each time . |
| 19 | The restorers ' single most valuable resource came in the form of life-size archive photographs of all the Gibbons ' carving at Hampton Court , and David Esterly is the first to admit his debt to the unnamed civil servant who in 1939 seeing war clouds gather , prudently took it upon himself to record the work for future generations . |
| 20 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 21 | This is the first thing you notice about graphics interchange files — they tend to be long . |
| 22 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 23 | It is not something impelled like a machine by a little egoistic inside ’ ; and again , ‘ deadness , in the limited sense in which we use that word , is the first condition of art . |
| 24 | And yet this probably is the first point to make . |
| 25 | And it is not insignificant that the quarterly of which he is the editor is the first British journal which has attempted to relate the British mind to the total European mind ; that has attempted a rational synthesis of the traditions of Roman culture ; that has , in a word , contemplated order . |
| 26 | His visit is the first by a Soviet defence minister to the US . |
| 27 | That is the first of many agencies , executives , commissions , and other quango-like bodies recommended by the review . |
| 28 | This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future . |
| 29 | Midland , whose staff is 56 per cent female , is the first major clearing bank to start a nursery programme : others are expected to follow in the drive to woo mothers back to work . |
| 30 | Mr Nathan , 62 , is the first Israeli jailed under the law , passed in 1986 . |