Example sentences of "[art] first of four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson hit the first of four second-half three-pointers , 6ft 7in Chris Kearney began to use his muscle while England international Dave Gardner found his range . |
| 2 | Under the big stick policy , the US sent armed forces into Honduras in 1905 , Cuba in 1906 , Panama — the first of four invasions in a decade — in 1908 , Nicaragua in 1912 , Haiti in 1914 , and the Dominican Republic in 1916 . |
| 3 | 30% of Bulgaria 's electricity is currently nuclear generated and at Belene on the River Danube the first of four 1000 MW PWRs is expected to begin electricity generation in the 1990s . |
| 4 | Following the 1892 Corporation take-over , in 1894 car 4 and others were reconstructed with separate trucks , and in the same year the first of four large Palace cars , seating 82 , was delivered . |
| 5 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 6 | It still has to deal with sagging demand in its two vital markets — the UK and the US — while it develops the first of four new models for the late '90s . |
| 7 | Part of a set of 20 in all , this month 's cards represent the first of four instalments , covering popular tropical fish . |
| 8 | SAGITTARIUS- THE year gets off to a cracking start for Sagittarians : The eclipse on December 9 , 1992 was the first of four to exert a powerful effect on your life — especially if your birthday falls between November 22 and December 11 . |
| 9 | Prabhakar was the first of four victims on the day for pace bowler Allan Donald , who took 7-84 in the innings and finished with his best Test figures of 12-139 . |
| 10 | In the first of four topics , Father Harry Stratton , parish priest of St Alban 's , Macclesfield , spoke of the development in the Church 's teaching on baptism , seen as a movement away from the congregation being virtually spectators at the liturgy , to them becoming a parish community worshipping together . |
| 11 | To tie in , the BFI have launched the first of four booklets to accompany the first four movies named in the series , THE WIZARD OF OZ , DOUBLE INDEMNITY , STAGECOACH and WENT THE DAY WELL . |
| 12 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 13 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |
| 14 | NCR CORP 'S TOP-END PORTS DUE OUT — HP 9000 THE FIRST OF FOUR |
| 15 | Endemic in Bengal for centuries , the first of four epidemics to attack the British population first appeared in Sunderland in 1831 ( the others were in 1848 , 1853 , and 1866 ) . |
| 16 | The second session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law held in 1894 agreed a draft Convention on Civil Procedure which was signed on 14 November 1896 , the first of four Hague Conventions to deal with service of process . |
| 17 | The first of four Special Issues depicting the seasons . |
| 18 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger had previously worked on original scripts ; this was the first of four novel adaptations , of which The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the only one in black and white , was paradoxically the best , though they were the supreme colour artists of British cinema in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 19 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |
| 20 | Lover and Husband was published in 1870 , the first of four three-volume novels for adults written under the name of ‘ Ennis Graham ’ . |
| 21 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 22 | Defence Ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) states ( Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ) met in Kuwait on Nov. 14 and 15 in the first of four ministerial meetings ahead of the planned summit in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 21 . |
| 23 | John Booth was the first of four generations of that name who were described variously as yeomen , nailers , nailchapmen and eventually gentlemen . |
| 24 | As the curtain rises on the interior of The Boar ( Act One , scene two ) we embark on the first of four scenes in which Britten frames a rapidly foward-moving dramatic action with elements of an abstract and self-generating musical form . |
| 25 | In the first of four reports on the main election topics |
| 26 | Today saw the first of four weekly auctions , and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers . |
| 27 | Mike Atherton looked in good touch again until missing a sweep off Such and falling lbw the first of four victims for the England off-spinner . |
| 28 | The shock news came as Roker manager Malcolm Crosby was completing his preparations for tonight 's visit of Second Dvision leaders Ipswich Town the first of four crucial games in seven days . |
| 29 | He will also keep the greens watered , anticipating a wind for all four rounds of the £350,000 promotion , the first of four by the Spanish Tourist Board . |