Example sentences of "[art] first [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 2 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 3 | The first lies in the passages in Purcell 's own handwriting . |
| 4 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 5 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 6 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 7 | The first records of the lands known as the Empire were made not by Men but by Dwarfs , over two and a half thousand years before the reign of the present Emperor Karl Franz . |
| 8 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 9 | The first efforts of the Bolsheviks were directed to overturning the traditional system of international relations , by the publication of the secret treaties signed during the war by the tsarist regime and by direct appeals , over the heads of their governments , to the peoples of the world for support . |
| 10 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 11 | The first reports of the fires emerged in mid-August from remote parts of Kalimantan , in the Indonesian part of Borneo . |
| 12 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 13 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 14 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 15 | During the first years of the women 's life in the community , the full-time team of health authority support workers has been regularly understaffed , with temporary cover being provided by a private nursing agency . |
| 16 | One of the most notable features of the first years of the invasions was the development of monasticism in southern Gaul . |
| 17 | The old zeks , the long-term men , they say that the first months in the camps are the hardest . |
| 18 | One can chart the seasons by the changes in the paintings : the appearance of the first Impressionists on the walls in early November always tell me it 's time to get out the winter overcoat . |
| 19 | Another common pond insect , the water boatman or backswimmer , lies just below the surface of the water and senses the ripples created by prey through special organs in the first segments of the legs . |
| 20 | Similarly , for the first interpretations of the sentences in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) ( a ) , with the attributive adjective , the questions would be : ( 8 ) which general did he paint ? which character does she want to play ? |
| 21 | The chronicles , which provide our only evidence on the first phases of the settlements , speak about grants of land to live in , of seats of habitation , and about the division of territory . |
| 22 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |
| 23 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 24 | One of the first battles between the giants of the world aerospace industry will be for a $2billion order from British Airways for either the 777 or the A330 to replace its ageing fleet of Tristars . |
| 25 | Eating during the first week will be very similar to that on baseline days during the preparation phase ( because only the first goals in the lists will be introduced ) . |
| 26 | This was too much even for men still undisturbed by the first stirrings of the women 's movement . |
| 27 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |