Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 3 | The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it . |
| 4 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 5 | I shall consider only the first of these here , since theory has no independent insular life , and in an order only partly chronological . |
| 6 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 7 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 8 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 9 | To begin with , consider the subset unc comprising those polynomials ( i.e. sequences ) whose every term , excepting possibly the first , is zero . |
| 10 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 11 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 12 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 13 | Financing just the first instalment of Labour 's spending plans would raise basic-rate income tax by 3½p in the pound if the entire burden was not to be loaded on to the better-off . |
| 14 | Craig Stewart neatly tucked away the first and , before the visitors could recover , an Ord free-kick was hooked across the goal by Butcher for Stewart to again apply the finishing touch . |
| 15 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 16 | The German Ideology is often seen with the Theses on Feuerbach , which was written just before it , as forming together the first formulation of Marxism . |
| 17 | Strachan who played only the first half engineered Leeds ' first goal with a 29th min cross for Noel Whelan to head in at the near post . |
| 18 | Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first . |
| 19 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |
| 20 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 21 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 22 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 23 | I sometimes shape just the first third of the sleeve , increasing rapidly in this section but making it possible to knit the rest of the sleeve straight . |
| 24 | It could be implied in the operation code whether the first or second store address is to receive the result , but in practice any particular computer uses always the first address , or always the second address , as the destination : for example the SS ( two address ) format of the IBM 370 range uses the first address as the destination . |
| 25 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |
| 26 | We have already seen recently the first recommendations from the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) , which has proposed a developmental model for the core areas of English , mathematics and science , as well as a timescale for the introduction of the assessment programme . |
| 27 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 28 | A large selection of vintage prints will be on offer in this sale of photographs , including possibly the first print of André Kertesz 's silver print of ‘ Chat Noir ’ ( est. $50–70,000 ; £30–40,000 ) and a group of four works by Tina Modotti : a platinum print , circa 1926 , entitled ‘ Woman carrying Olla ’ ( est. $40–60,000 ; £25–35,000 ) , silver prints of a ‘ Mexican peasant boy ’ and ‘ Campesinos ’ ( both est. $20–30,000 ; £11–17,000 ) and a platinum print from the early 1920s entitled ‘ Lily and Bud ’ ( est. $7–10,000 ; £4–5,500 ) . |
| 29 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 30 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |