Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] for [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bibliographer Lowndes , over a hundred years ago , categorically listed eight different title-pages for the first edition of Milton 's Paradise Lost , pointing out such differences as large or small italic capitals for the poet 's name ; in one case the use of his initials only-groups of stars between words , or none ; with or without fleur-de-lis ornaments , etc . |
| 2 | She experiences this unbelievable elation for the first time during a discussion of phonetic laws with Professor Jarvis-Andersen . |
| 3 | IN perfect conditions , Graham Bell , the leading member of the British World Cup downhill squad on current form , pipped his brother , Martin , to lift the British downhill title for the first time at Tignes , France , yesterday . |
| 4 | TONIGHT David Hockney , as set designer , will be accompanied by some 30 friends for the first night of the Royal Opera House 's new production of Richard Strauss 's Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without Shadow ) , directed by John Cox and conducted by Bernard Haitinck . |
| 5 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 6 | Display manager John Birch said the complaint could have arisen because the store was using some male dummies for the first time in several years . |
| 7 | And no matter how minor that discovery is , there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time . |
| 8 | Swindon Town expect to sell their entire allocation of thirty-six thousand tickets for the First Division play-off final . |
| 9 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 10 | It is interesting that the current growth of population in this empty middle is creating a proper axial belt for the first time . |
| 11 | Vardon won the British Open Championship for the first time in 1896 at Muirfield , beating Taylor in a play-off . |
| 12 | As you add explanatory notes , offer all the help you would hope to find , as a reader , in an annotated edition if you yourself were studying this particular text for the first time . |
| 13 | Tom O'Connell , the marketing partner of Grant Thornton Scotland , said yesterday : ‘ We had some excellent entries for the first award , and we are looking forward to receiving entries of a similar calibre . |
| 14 | This great migration gave to the black population , concentrated in the inner-city areas of which Harlem in New York was only the most famous , real political power for the first time . |
| 15 | In the years immediately after the Second World War , the particular concerns of old age became a subject for serious social investigation for the first time . |
| 16 | All the weeks of reluctantly keeping Yanto at bay , plus having her hand on a male sexual organ for the first time in her twenty five years of life , was too much for Molly . |
| 17 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 18 | SCOTVEC has also been working on a catalogue of extra additional assessments for the first phase of general SVQs , in order to provide candidates with a wider choice of assessments . |
| 19 | Over the last few months , SCOTVEC has been working on a series of extra additional assessments for the first batch of general SVQs , that is , for the awards in : |
| 20 | Geriatrics became a serious medical specialty for the first time . |
| 21 | Her entire gross profit for the first four months had been negated by shoplifting tots . |
| 22 | It will provide a comprehensive district-wide service for the first time , and act as a central focus for the community . |
| 23 | The appointment by Pope John Paul II of five new bishops on Feb. 14 , 1990 , filled all of the country 's 13 Roman Catholic bishoprics for the first time since the Second World War [ see p. 36235 for appointment in May 1988 of three bishops ] . |
| 24 | The martyrdom of Husain , as the Karbala episode is usually described , is commemorated early in each Muslim New Year for the first ten days of the month of Muharram : in Shiite communities men form processions , bare to the waist , beating themselves with whips and chains until their bodies run with blood , chanting a recitation of the events of 680 . |
| 25 | It appears that P.wickerhamii has accumulated far less mutations in its mtDNA compared to higher plants than Chlamydomonas , thus providing us with a well suited model organism to study the plant-algal mitochondrial lineage for the first time . |
| 26 | However , from the early 1870s the British economy was beginning to face serious competitive pressure for the first time from the expanding economies of Western Europe and the United States . |
| 27 | Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run . |
| 28 | In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates . |
| 29 | Sung looked up , meeting Bergson 's cold grey eyes for the first time in their interview , then looked down again , understanding perfectly . |
| 30 | Audio Transcription ( First Level ) is an optional qualifying subject for the First Level Certificate in Commercial Studies . |