Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Heavens no , ’ agreed Julia , thinking about the Easter plans for the first time that evening .
2 To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on .
3 It could be argued , therefore , that the rise of Mercia in the eighth century represented a serious destabilization of the southumbrian situation before the return to a new balance between the Mercians and the West Saxons in the first half of the ninth .
4 ‘ Live ’ delivered a hit single in ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ and put Marley into the album charts for the first time .
5 Now they could see that Jimmy was tugging a large metal filing cabinet with him , dragged from one of the side offices on the first floor .
6 The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers .
7 The programmes of study will apply from five years of age , likewise the attainment targets , although not in operation formally until the age of seven years , will of course be drawn from the study programmes in the first two years of statutory schooling .
8 Right , so I , I 've put , got the range names on the first two , but not on the others .
9 The chairman , Anthony Vice , said : ‘ The management results for the first two months of 1993 show a small improvement in the United Kingdom and the United States , but this has been offset by the effects of recession in Germany . ’
10 In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest .
11 Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor .
12 September 1990 also saw the prescribed ATs and PS for the core subjects in the first year of key stage 2 and for English in the first year of key stage 3 brought into effect .
13 Spring passage commonly extends from early March to late May , but sea-watching results from Selsey Bill since 1960 consistently show that the passage peaks in the first three weeks of April , and off Beachy Head Cooper ( 1975 ) found a marked peak between 11 and 20 April .
14 And finally Morgan , looking again at solitary well differentiated tumours , suggested a regime similar to that of Palmer 's , namely missing out two or three of the check cystoscopies in the first year .
15 The tax remissions of the first half of the fifteenth century show that some of the villages which later disappeared were granted substantial reliefs , although this was not universal .
16 The similarities , however , are mostly in matters of device ( the piano arpeggios in the first movement Coda , for example , and the six-eight ending of the Rondo , tragic in Mozart , brilliant in Beethoven ) .
17 Especially fascinating is the almost secretive way the harmony changes in the first bar .
18 The Tories entered the record books as the first party to secure a fourth term in power since the early 19th century and caused a further surprise by regaining seats in Scotland — confounding predictions of a Conservative collapse north of the border .
19 This is because the tentacle scales of the first and second oral tentacle pores are also spinelike , resembling the oral and apical papillae .
20 Have you fallen into any obvious traps : failing to make a proper specification of the job requirements in the first place ; not having a really clear picture of the ideal candidate in your mind ; being swayed by an attractive and forceful personality ; doing more talking than listening ; looking for people with your own characteristics ; appointing someone who lacks some of the points you had decided were essential ; choosing the best of the bunch instead of rethinking ; rushing the interviews in circumstances which do not allow a proper conversation ?
21 And this was , this , that , that would n't have entered into that brief but my argument was that , you know everybody would be much happier if there was less rubbish to put in the landfill sites in the first place .
22 ‘ If you are going to play games in the dark , ’ he said , ‘ please be careful of the back stairs on the first floor .
23 These groups had deep historical roots in the opening months of the First World War , which had seen the renewal of the sources of criticism of the radical right against the Liberal government .
24 Omi not being of the school which sits as far at the back of a church as possible , Erika found herself under the nose of the Minister , who beamed upon her , and surrounded by family groups : parents , grandparents and children who made an agreeable din until a small group of musicians struck up the opening bars of the first hymn .
25 Just how complicated a problem this may turn out to be is indicated by the following quotations from the opening paragraphs of the first two chapters of Christine Hugh-Jones ' very remarkable book From the Milk River , which is a study of Pira-pirana Indians living in the Vaupes region of Colombia , as viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of a single longhouse community in which she and her husband resided for two years between September 1968 and December 1970 :
26 Bearing in mind the evolving nature of the project itself with regard to guidelines on the format of proposals , the need for detailed spending plans and so on , it is natural enough that the shape and membership of the library committees in the first wave of schools were initially rather vague , the committees developing into more clearly constituted bodies as project development got under way .
27 The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension .
28 Some Institute members have already raised questions about , for example , the lack of a Tax Faculty response to the Institute of Taxation 's stance on the exam proposals in the first programme .
29 The nadir pressures of the first transient UOS relaxations that occurred during the common cavity episodes differed significantly from the first transient UOS relaxations that occurred before the common cavity ( p<0.05 ) .
30 These both include many steps with the so-called ‘ dotted ’ rhythm i.e. in 3/4 the dancer steps on the first beat , holds on the second and briefly takes weight on the other foot on the third before stepping onwards .
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