Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 2 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 3 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 4 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
| 5 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
| 6 | It has seen the consolidation of work commenced in the first year ; the forging ahead of ‘ key ’ enterprise activities university wide and the ‘ piloting ’ of a number of innovative projects . |
| 7 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |
| 8 | The emphasis in Developments on boards being required to work within committee policies , and the changes of procedure envisaged in the first four items of the new model , did not mean automatic changes in the ‘ inspectoral ’ functions of the boards . |
| 9 | On the other hand , this heterogeneity between risk groups might reflect the existence of constitutionally distinct subgroups within a population that has different forms of susceptibility to adenoma development : one with generalised and noticeable proliferative anomalies throughout the entire colonic epithelium that produce an increase tendency toward recidivism , and a second , less recidivant subgroup in whom polyp development is not preceded by the generalised pattern of hyperproliferation seen in the first group but by other types of alterations as yet unidentified . |
| 10 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 11 | There were an awful lot of teething troubles in the first year or so , but it is working very well . |
| 12 | The advantages of form disappeared in the first quarter of the fourth century , when Constantine abolished the formal requirements of the civil law . |
| 13 | Success was rapid with 2,196 organized weeks of holiday taken in the first year of operation . |
| 14 | This is one US citizen who believes very firmly in the uninhibited freedom of expression guaranteed in the First Amendment , while not considering Ice-T a ‘ living martyr ’ . |
| 15 | Crusaders had nothing of note to show in the first half apart from a drive lofted over the bar by Stephen Lynch from Burrows ' free kick in the second minute and a double save by Distillery keeper Steve Collins from Steven Livingstone in the 31st minute . |
| 16 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 17 | In particular , I am pleased to note a number of important developments stemming from action points in the first Plan . |
| 18 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 19 | It was known that , if Sunderland lost their game , then Bristol and Coventry needed only to draw against each other in order to stay in the First Division . |
| 20 | The Cherry and Whites are used to winning against Nottingham … last time they played it was for league points in the first division … |
| 21 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 22 | There was improvement in all the major lines during the half year except Personal Property which was adversely affected by weather claims in the first quarter . |