Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telecine now gets the direction to run the first piece of 16mm film — the familiar opening graphics sequence together with the sound-on-film theme music . |
| 2 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 3 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 4 | The case marked the first use of the Organized Crime Control Act of New York State in connection with fraud on Wall Street 's financial markets . |
| 5 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 7 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 8 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 9 | The releases mark the first improvement in the human rights situation in Malawi for several years . |
| 10 | AT the end of last month the University received the first information from the UFC on its recurrent grant and funded student numbers for 1992/93 . |
| 11 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 12 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 13 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 14 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 15 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 16 | The drawing suggests a first investment that is very risky for the speculator . |
| 17 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 18 | The President appoints a First Vice-President and Prime Minister who must be an elected member of the National Assembly , and a Cabinet which may include non-elected members and is collectively responsible to the legislature . |
| 19 | The violence prompted a first wave of mainly Hutu refugees to flee to Rwanda and to Zaïre . |
| 20 | This is illustrated by the RR format of instruction on the IBM 370 range , shown in Figure 3.8 ( a ) , where the result replaces the first operand . |
| 21 | The deal marks the first venture by Peabody , already the biggest US coal-mining company , into the Pacific Rim . |
| 22 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 23 | The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings . |
| 24 | The accord marked the first application of the so-called " Brady plan " designed to encourage voluntary debt reduction schemes [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 25 | THE contest to represent the first district on the Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors hardly sounds like national news . |
| 26 | If the horse jumps the first fence stickily , a smack on landing will sharpen him up . |
| 27 | The making of the images becomes the first part of the drama , in which ( for example ) the work is inspected by the teacher in role as new Mayor , who commissions a statue to commemorate the return of the children of Hamelin ! |
| 28 | To justify its ways , this week the council releases the first draft of its National Arts and Media Strategy . |
| 29 | The patrols searching the first group of farms around the village of Pontino were the only ones to bring the Captain anything when they returned , muddy and exhausted , after their double shift . |
| 30 | The law upheld the first system as long as the aristocracy was supreme . |