Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 2 | This gives MacMillan the opportunity in the first act , which is brilliant , to introduce his characters in solos of vivid personality while Rose 's vision of her lost Prince provides a poetic pas de deux . |
| 3 | An accountant , in order to stand any chance of a career in corporate finance , must have a good academic record ( 2.1 or better ) at a recognised university ( red brick or Oxbridge ) , must have trained with one of the top accountancy firms , and passed the exams at the first attempt . |
| 4 | The contracts for the first defence of the title given to Lewis when Riddick Bowe was stripped of the distinction by the WBC were signed by the fighter and his manager , Frank Maloney , in Glasgow yesterday and faxed to Tucker 's handler , Don King , in New York . |
| 5 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 6 | So the remainder of the first consultation was spent showing Clive how to breathe from his diaphragm rather than from the upper part of his chest . |
| 7 | That is to say that Middle C , at 256Hz , has its true pitch represented on the guitar at the first fret , second string . |
| 8 | At the end of this wall leading off to the left was another passage to the downstairs lobby and the stairway to the first floor . |
| 9 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 10 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 11 | In the symmetry consensus , the simple consensus is converted to a palindrome based on the most frequent base at each symmetrical position , i.e. in the right half site , the base at the first position is not conserved , however , an A is found at the symmetrical position in the left half-site in all four sites , hence , the first position in the right half site is a T in the symmetry consensus . |
| 12 | There was no question about the direction of the first goal … that hit the back of the Wolves net at about seventy miles an hour … |
| 13 | It shows two men wearing gloves walking from the direction of the first explosion . |
| 14 | He brushes her lips with his , then jerks his head in the direction of the first floor . |
| 15 | All those year-end supplements on Revolution in Eastern Europe barely nodded in the direction of the first Revolution of 1989 . |
| 16 | The Regional Council has just completed the provision of the first phase of access and servicing to the site , and is able to offer up to 4 development plots for sale or lease . |
| 17 | After all , it was the Budapest public who demanded the removal of the eye-sores in the first place . |
| 18 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 19 | The EC wishes to extend the concept of mutual recognition beyond the coverage of the First Directive . |
| 20 | The very positive self image , the change during the first week , that single parents experience those courses is absolutely striking . |
| 21 | Erm , yes , I 'd like to , erm , ask a question and suggest that the change in the first paragraph , Service Strategy and Regulations . |
| 22 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 23 | It can be argued that ‘ normalizing ’ the marked English structure is not a good strategy in this instance and that a slightly different but similarly marked Arabic structure ( using a particle such as inna ) would have preserved the prominence given by the writer to the first part of the statement ( Mr Rowland wants ) and still sounded natural in Arabic : |
| 24 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
| 25 | The number of boys fluctuated around 100 , but the School at last seemed to have become viable , a credit balance appearing in the accounts for the first time . |
| 26 | The General Post Office appears in the accounts for the first time . |
| 27 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 28 | Its original decoration was splendid , but the calibre of its collections was transformed in relatively recent times by the transfer of much of the contents of Montagu House , Whitehall , the successor to the first duke 's great mansion in Bloomsbury . |
| 29 | The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s . |
| 30 | In 1906 an adverse report by the Board of Education 's inspectors on infant education led to the Board for the first time limiting school provision for children under five — hitherto the normal age for the entry of working-class children to full-time education had been three . |