Example sentences of "[art] first of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of 13 dormant trade/transit points along the Indo-Nepali border was ceremonially reopened by Bhattarai on June 18 . |
| 2 | Oracle also plans to introduce a project management toolset for CDE in the first of 1994 . |
| 3 | Chairman it 's er an excellent question an an and I , I , I 'm hesitating in giving er an an off the cuff answer , but the first of all we were n't actually asked to issue a statement of conformity at this stage |
| 4 | Antigone may be the first of all political plays and is surely the greatest . |
| 5 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |
| 6 | Smoking the first of five cigarettes from his case which had been undamaged in his rear pocket ( matches from escape kit ) Harry made up his mind to head for a port , walking north-westerly to avoid Potsdam . |
| 7 | Lord Winterstoke became the first of five Pro-Chancellors who have been elected from Wills families . |
| 8 | 26th minute : Steve Bould became the first of five bookings for his second tackle from behind on Teddy Sheringham . |
| 9 | Although it will attract the lion 's share of attention , the exhibition is , in fact , only the last link in a chain of new developments in Magritte studies , for a fresh monograph and the first of five projected volumes of a catalogue raisonné are being published this month . |
| 10 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 11 | The first of five satellites , relaying both telecommunications traffic and TV relay signals , it became operational in October 1984 and gave Europe ( said the 1983 CNES annual report ) its independence in the field of telecommunications . |
| 12 | , Mary Mitchell ( 1848–1915 ) , missionary , was born 2 December 1848 in Gilcomston , a suburb of Aberdeen , the first of five daughters and the second of seven children ( four of whom reached adulthood ) of Robert Slessor , shoemaker , of Buchan , and his wife Mary Mitchell , weaver , of Old Meldrum . |
| 13 | On Aug. 15-16 the army completed the demobilization of the first of five elite US-trained counterinsurgency battalions , all of which were accused of human rights abuses . |
| 14 | Next year , the younger son of this old man became the first of five Richard Goughs to live at Newton on the Hill , a mile or so from Myddle church . |
| 15 | The approved final designs and rental arrangements for the Hanseatic Trade Centre in Hamburg were unveiled recently , enabling the first of five building phases to begin . |
| 16 | His premature death opened the way for John Fothergill , an engineer and the first of five generations of Fothergills to head up the Tilery Bank business , to take over . |
| 17 | It was the first of such actions , however vague it may appear in remote retrospect , which introduced the concept of ‘ evil ’ . |
| 18 | The first of such groups was Ketley 's Building Society known to have been operating in Birmingham in 1775 . |
| 19 | Fundraising began in earnest , with the first of such projects intended to fund restoration and the modernisation of storage spaces . |
| 20 | The first of such Councils to be recognized as ecumenical by the Western Church took place in the Lateran basilica , Rome , in 1123 . |
| 21 | Reviewing the seminar , Paul Murray said : ‘ Given the change in our portfolio , this important step in LASMO 's investor relations programme was both essential and effective and was just the first of such events — we will certainly be continuing this communications process in the future . ’ |
| 22 | Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment . |
| 23 | That is the first of many agencies , executives , commissions , and other quango-like bodies recommended by the review . |
| 24 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |
| 25 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 26 | The first of many . |
| 27 | An evocation of his previous summer holiday in Pontardulais , it was the first of many papers about the half-fantasy Malory-like character of a knight called Basil of the Woods or the Knight Solitary : ‘ all very sublime but a little uninteresting to everyone but myself . |
| 28 | In 1976 , there was Bugsy Malone , the first of many award-winners : Midnight Express , Chariots of Fire , Local Hero , Cal , The Killing Fields and The Mission . |
| 29 | But with a nation glued to its sets , Hendry handed out the first of many tutorial beatings , which heralded a largely unproductive 2½ seasons for Wattana . |
| 30 | Just 4kms from the resort is the first of many places you just ‘ have ’ to see the Varone waterfalls . |