Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] of the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collection of antique tablets , inscriptions and small bas-reliefs housed under the arcades of the first courtyard was installed in the palace by the Riccardi family following their purchase of the palace from the Medici in 1659 . |
| 2 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 3 | In psychological terms , when a speaker of one language learns a second there is a tendency to generalise some of the rules of the first language to the second language ; when these rules conflict with the correct rules for the second language there is interference , sometimes known as L1 interference or mother-tongue interference . |
| 4 | The goals of the first transition phase , the first series of internal tariff reductions and measures designed to reduce the differences in the external tariffs of the Six , had been achieved without too much hardship or dispute , and the Commission was looking forward with confidence to shortening the planned duration of the second transition phase . |
| 5 | The founder and leader of the BUF , Sir Oswald Mosley , was a self-conscious political spokesman for the ‘ lost generation ’ and the survivors of the first World War . |
| 6 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 7 | Immediately we could sense a rough and rather unpleasant atmosphere , but we allowed ourselves to be swept up the steps of the first house into a howling throng of excitable spectators . |
| 8 | It is an interesting reflection of the diversity of views and values in school that one of the readers of the first draft of this book commented on this letter : ‘ How sentimental ! |
| 9 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 10 | What the searchers ‘ found ’ were the papal letters mentioned by Lanfranc in 1072 , fortified with forged additions granting the primacy in perpetuity to the successors of the first archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 11 | The subjects of the first year of this proposed course would be anatomy , physiology , conformation and external diseases ; in the second year , surgery , materia medica , pharmacy and botany as relating to veterinary medicine ; in the third year , pathology , epizootic diseases , treatment and prevention of disease , hospital practice and shoeing . |
| 12 | One of the attractions of the first book had been Minton 's delight in the shape of things — fish , bowls , tureens , vegetables , fruit , octopus , squid and elaborate sweets . |
| 13 | These houses , the homes of the first pottery makers on Crete , had rectangular rooms and were made without stone footings . |
| 14 | The winners of the first Festival at Brighton were the Paisley Branch . |
| 15 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |
| 16 | They see the ‘ cunning ’ of the serpent in the Garden of Eden as the wiles of the first intellectual ( probably a theologian ) . |
| 17 | Consequently , a member state would be bound to authorise the registration of a vessel of nationals of another member state only if those nationals were entitled , in the light of those criteria , to benefit by the quotas of the first member state . |
| 18 | The experiences of the First World War , often registered in a feeling of horrific waste , also left a deep impression on the mental landscape of the interwar years and helped to form the low-key response towards crime and hooliganism . |
| 19 | This second possibility was the one I preferred , especially since I saw on reflection that such ripples might produce some of the effects of the first possibility . |
| 20 | The second decree , in 1977 , represented a further attempt by the military government to wrest control from the TNCs , particularly to counter the defensive measures that the TNCs had developed to nullify the effects of the first decree . |
| 21 | Comparison of the CONVEX-91 west section ( Fig. 1 ) with data from Erika Dan ( 1962 ) and Knorr ( 1983 ) in a similar fashion ( but on a 0.25° latitudinal grid ) shows that there has been marked cooling since 1962 , averaging -0.42°C , whereas since 1983 there has been no change , presumably because the effects of the first renewal of LSW had already reached the Irminger Basin . |
| 22 | We are the descendants of the first wave of life-formation ; all others have been devoured by members of our ‘ generation ’ . |
| 23 | As soon as the parents of the first baby contacted health service bosses the parents of the second were told . |
| 24 | In between time as I say we 'd had 's header wide which was one of the mysteries of the first half . |
| 25 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 26 | Genda , as operations officer for the airborne attack had trained the pilots of the First Carrier Division in low level flights over Kagoshima Bay in southern Japan . |
| 27 | Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition . |
| 28 | From the margins of the First Dominion to Patashoqua and its satellite cities in the Fourth , voices were raised to stir rebellion . |
| 29 | Such views were to move into the mainstream of Labour politics only when liberal capitalism collapsed under the strains of the First World War . |
| 30 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |