Example sentences of "in [art] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extra-full crew of Swallows — Bridget is old enough to join in the adventures for the first time — and the two visiting Amazons turn surveyors , until they encounter those muddy indigenous savages , the Eels and the Mastodon , and the hostilities replace exploration . |
| 2 | A very significant change in the towns of the First or Old Temple Period was the development of the temples as major craft centres . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The General Post Office appears in the accounts for the first time . |
| 5 | The forwards were again beaten in the line-outs during the first half . |
| 6 | Thus , at one stage in the meetings of the first International ( September 1864 ) , the followers of the French socialist , Proudhon , opposed any movements for national independence on the grounds that the concept of the nation was already obsolete . |
| 7 | Poland emerged from the feudal soup of partition to the bright light of history and to the ongoing crisis of capitalism , which had apparently reached a peak in the horrors of the First World War . |
| 8 | At least the poor bloody infantry in the trenches during the First World War did n't have to put up with that . |
| 9 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 10 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 11 | He missed death in the trenches in the First World War , had a daughter who died young , and he was now in hospital separated from his wife . |
| 12 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 13 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 14 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's included in the games for the first time . |
| 16 | Keighley has also been involved in the arrangements for the first conference of clinical research nurses , at which they hope formally to launch a national organisation ( still to be named ) . |
| 17 | It was only in the days of the first widespread alphabetic culture that the idea of ‘ logic ’ appears to have arisen . |
| 18 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 19 | Jacko looked him in the eyes for the first time since they 'd met . |
| 20 | Shocked , she looked him fully in the eyes for the first time . |
| 21 | This autumn it 's own range of clothing appears in the shops for the first time . |
| 22 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 23 | So , in what was nominally a democracy , power was really in the hands of the first citizen … |
| 24 | Until he won the Paris Open earlier this month — where he also beat world No 1 Courier — he was n't even certain to qualify for this ‘ best eight ’ in the world ’ tournament , having fallen to 10th in the rankings for the first time in eight years , and failing to make a Grand Slam final for the first time in five . |
| 25 | Probably the people whose advice had put him behind in the polls during the first weeks of the campaign . |
| 26 | Jack Charlton 's Irish , in the finals for the first time , join Colombia , Uruguay , Czechoslovakia , Romania and Sweden in the third pool . |
| 27 | Jack Charlton 's Irish , in the finals for the first time , join Colombia , Uruguay , Czechoslovakia , Romania and Sweden in the third pool . |
| 28 | It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height . |
| 29 | Needless to say , these measures proved effective , and Persian weavers went back to using natural dyes until the more reliable chrome dyes were introduced in the years between the First and Second World Wars . |
| 30 | Though purity remained hegemonic in the years before the First War , there was another feminist strategy for speaking about sex . |