Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 2 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 3 | The national curriculum proposals form the first part of the Education Reform Bill , which also contains proposals in relation to open enrolments , financial delegation to schools , the establishment of grant maintained schools and various proposals for higher education . |
| 4 | Store manager Paul Ainger and retail director Colin Harvey welcome the first customers at the front door . |
| 5 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 6 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 7 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 8 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 9 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Last year NEC Corp launched the first wireless PC . |
| 11 | However , where the contribution , if any , is not sufficient to make up the difference , the Legal Aid Board has a first charge on any property , including money , recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 12 | The following study attempts to avoid the first problem by increasing the data available for the calculation of ROC curves and to address the second problem by using a much more varied selection of stimuli . |
| 13 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 14 | Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say . |
| 15 | Blyth Wright starting the first pitch of The Bat — the traverse to the Hoodie Groove . |
| 16 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 17 | Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 18 | for 3rd arts south Celebrating the first steps of a maestro . |
| 19 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |
| 20 | He lived with his five brothers , sister and parents in an old building near the Cliff Hotel in Jaffa and he still remembered the day in 1935 on which Jean Damiani bought the first family car , a magnificent light green Buick saloon costing 350 Palestinian pounds , equivalent then to the same amount in sterling . |
| 21 | Eventually , in 1921 Marie Stopes opened the first birth control clinic . |
| 22 | RICHARD Wood became the first marketing and development officer for Durham Wildlife Trust last August . |
| 23 | Ellen Schneider-Lenne became the first woman on the board of Morgan Grenfell in its 151-year history , thanks to its takeover by Deutsche Bank . |
| 24 | Hambro Countrywide 's shares soared 7p to 36p on Hill 's bullish comments , boosting its market value by nearly 25% , as the stock market savoured the first piece of good news about housing for a long time . |
| 25 | President Ramaswamy Venkataraman paid the first state visit to China by an Indian President on May 18-23 . |
| 26 | Jim Wells has a first degree and postgraduate qualification in town planning . |
| 27 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
| 28 | JULIO Cesar Chavez escaped the first defeat of his 88-bout career and Pernell Whitaker retained the WBC welterweight title when they battled to a 12-round draw in San Antonio , Texas last night . |
| 29 | JULIO Cesar Chavez escaped the first defeat of his 88-bout career and Pernell Whitaker retained the WBC welterweight title when they battled to a 12-round draw in San Antonio , Texas , last night . |
| 30 | With Granby Village conveniently situated in the City centre close to shops and local amenities , it provided an ideal start for a shopping spree to spend the first part of the prize — £100 in cash . |