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

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1 A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange .
2 In 1971 , about 10% of marriages involved the first marriage of one party to a divorced partner and 4% involved the remarriage of two divorcees ; by 1989 , these proportions had risen to 19% and 13% respectively .
3 Tests are also available to help teachers monitor the progress of students using the first three Streamline coursebooks : Departures , Connections and Destinations .
4 Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) .
5 In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery .
6 Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping .
7 In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal .
8 THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped .
9 The Wall-Paintings of Thera provides a first opportunity to see all the excavated frescos .
10 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
11 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
12 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
13 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
14 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
15 This year sees the centenary of Peter Rabbit and since Wedgwood already dominates this characterware market segment the company has added a special range of items to celebrate the first appearance of Beatrix Potter 's famous character .
16 Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records .
17 Former Herioter Dr Bill Fiddes was fully occupied coping with the stream of injuries reaching the first aid room as three visitors in Harper , Gibson and Ireland also departed the field injured and with Selkirk assuming control for possession , Middleton and McConnell rampant at the line-outs , the home backs settled to the style of play inherited from John Rutherford for points to come thick and fast .
18 Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys .
19 Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct .
20 The Court of Appeal dismissed the first and second defendants ' appeal against Mr Justice Vinelott 's order that the defendants permit the plaintiff 's solicitors to inspect and take copies of an affidavit in the possession of the defendants ' solicitors .
21 However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim .
22 UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards .
23 The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 .
24 By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) .
25 In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge .
26 The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo .
27 Thus the Book of Daniel provides the first intimation of that apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary struggles which was to become an ordinary feature of the later rebellions of the Jews against foreign rule .
28 President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry .
29 It will be seen that the top line of activities repeats the first stage of the company strategic plan as it affects R&D .
30 In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast .
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