Example sentences of "[art] first line of " in BNC.

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1 This is illustrated in Fig. 6 , showing typical mapping from the start of the four bit plane base addresses and the first line of pixels on the screen .
2 The first line of defence of established literary study against culturalist pressures is to emphasize ‘ literature as literature ’ rather than as a version of philosophy , history , sociology , and so forth .
3 The first line of attack is often name-calling : ‘ You would say that , would n't you , because you 're a Catholic/a man/fertile/infertile/a doctor/a research scientist ’ .
4 It says avoidance of the substance causing the allergy is the first line of treatment followed by drugs , where possible , to relieve symptoms and by desensitisation in a few selected cases .
5 In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism .
6 In both men and women the first line of treatment is the application of substances to the warts .
7 Powell , taking a quick penalty , fed skipper Gander on the burst and he broke the first line of defence to surge clear .
8 The first line of defence is regular brushing and combing .
9 Tap Newline , ( Shift+Enter ) , at the end of every line of a table starting at the first line of column headings , if any , and include any clear lines within a table ( eg the clear lines in the Table of Task 20 )
10 a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page .
11 Behind the first line of colonists is a second , and a third , and so on , some families being 10 km or more from the road along a muddy footpath .
12 At the moment , the first line of defence is usually a smoke detector on the ceiling in every corridor .
13 Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S .
14 Fluoride is a powerful enzyme poison , inhibiting a number of vital enzymes in the body and causing considerable stress to our immune systems — the first line of defence against infections and other harmful environmental agents .
15 These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text .
16 The syllables ‘ nagement ’ are repeated in the first line of the next page .
17 The priest had to act as both choirmaster and precentor , setting the pitch and intoning the first line of each hymn , as well as training his people to sing the Merbecke setting which Father Jackson had adapted for Burmese use .
18 There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken .
19 Bombardment of the inner forts followed , and for some three weeks attempts — desultory at best — were made by trawlers to sweep the first line of mines .
20 The first line of plant resistance is the surface skin layer , the epidermis , like your own skin .
21 There could be no thought of undermining the class which served as the first line of resistance to smouldering peasant insubordination .
22 The original water filled moat , forms the first line of defence , followed by a ring of outer walls and a series of evenly spaced towers .
23 Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text .
24 ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth .
25 I will begin with the first line of argument , which asserts that the investigation of a suspect ends when he is charged .
26 She left the pickup door hanging open to examine the first line of trees .
27 There were no sounds of pursuit now , and only occasional splashing signified that the would-be assassins were searching the expanse of water somewhere behind the first line of pillars .
28 Beyond the first line of trees the forest was shrouded in darkness .
29 The following bridge carries the track which will form the first line of the Midland Metro , due to be opened next year .
30 Spring back up without stiffening and sing ‘ gah ’ or ‘ lah ’ or the first line of a chosen poem or song .
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