Example sentences of "[art] first in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | H. Gustav Klaus , an admirer of Ashraf , has produced two relevant studies , the first in 1981 comparing Stephen Duck and Mary Collier , and the second in 1985 entitled The Literature of Labour : Two Hundred Years of Working-Class Writing . |
| 2 | To take a team from the Fourth to the First in six years is n't bad going whatever style of football you play . ’ |
| 3 | In the ensuing retaliatory offensive , the first in southern Croatia , jet fighters and gunboats attacked the industrial Adriatic port of Ploce on Sept. 15 , where Croatians had seized thousands of weapons from a naval base , and bombed the rail link between inland Croatia and the coast . |
| 4 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 5 | The company was undecided whether to adopt the First In First Out ( FIFO ) basis of stock valuation or the Last In First Out ( LIFO ) basis of stock valuation . |
| 6 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |
| 7 | In the AAA Championships there were very tough qualifying conditions , only the first in each heat going through to the final . |
| 8 | There were tough qualifying conditions in the heats : the first in each heat automatically and then a number of the fastest losers . |
| 9 | President Yoweri Museveni on Oct. 15 ended a three-day state visit to India , the first in 11 years . |
| 10 | Gorbachev 's report to the 27th CPSU Congress in 1986 was the first in modern times to make no reference to the need to assist ‘ national liberation ’ movements in the developing countries ; rather , the Soviet leader appeared to favour a ‘ comprehensive system of international security ’ involving ‘ the use for the welfare of the world community , above all of the developing countries , of part of the funds that [ would ] be released as a result of the reduction in military budgets ’ . |
| 11 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 12 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 13 | Colin Allister set up both goals , the first in 14 minutes converted by McGladdery , and the second just 30 seconds from time by schoolboy Lee Tumilty . |
| 14 | The Duke of Kent , the opera 's patron , and Sir Michael Tippett , composer and president of Kent Opera , both fought to save the company , the first in regional professional opera to tour the country . |
| 15 | Two scrutinies , in particular , were crucially important : the first in 1979 led to the decision to implement a management information system for ministers ( MINIS ) in the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 16 | With the onslaught of the Phylloxera crisis , peaking in the 1880s , American resistant hybrid vines were imported , the first in 1873 by Thomas Slapp Leacock . |
| 17 | It will be the 50th Irish match at this venue since the first in 1868 . |
| 18 | HUNGARY 'S ruling Socialist Workers Party took a big step yesterday towards the complete abandonment of Communism when its president , Rezso Nyers , sketched out the contours of a new socialist movement capable of contesting next year 's free elections , the first in Eastern Europe for 40 years . |
| 19 | Poland 's June 1989 elections , based on the April 1989 round table agreement [ see pp. 36577-79 ; 36722-24 ] , had been the first in eastern Europe to break the Communist monopoly on power , but only 35 per cent of seats in the Sejm and all seats in the Senate had been freely contested ( all , bar one in the Senate , being won by Solidarity candidates ) . |
| 20 | The country is the first in Eastern Europe to be investigated , but the organisation expects that Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Romania will also be revealed to be importing toxic waste , albeit in some cases unwittingly . |
| 21 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 22 | The second domain-specific method ( DS2 ) resembles the first in that 20 of its 81 categories were one or two-word sequences occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 1 and 2 word positions , respectively . |
| 23 | Sixteen years and one month later , Bunny Johnson became the fourth black boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt , the most coveted award in British boxing ( Randolph Turpin was the first in 1956 , Bunny Sterling the second in 1973 , Maurice Hope the third in 1976 ) . |
| 24 | The first in particular is an accomplished piece of work . |
| 25 | Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross . |
| 26 | CADW , the organisation responsible for historic monuments in Wales , is to carry out a new survey of listed buildings in Holyhead the first in 43 years . |
| 27 | Mika Enberg , ICL 's TeamWare product marketing manager says ICL began seeking US partners three months ago and hopes to sign the first in three or four months . |
| 28 | [ For third congress in February 1986 see p. 34230 ; the second congress had been in 1980 — see p. 30817 — and the first in 1975 — see p. 27595 . |
| 29 | The first in ten minutes , was a blatant error by the officials Neil Williams was well on-side when he picked up a pass before scoring . |
| 30 | The Great Western , whose rich agricultural heartland was providing an increasing volume of the capital 's milk , opened a special milk halt at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire and constructed special milk platforms at Paddington , the first in 1881 . |