Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 2 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 3 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 4 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 5 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 6 | Turning to the specific example of a continuous square wave of amplitude a and period T , it can be represented in terms of by The validity of this particular harmonic representation is demonstrated in figure 11.1 where it is shown that summing the first three terms of expression ( 11.2 ) produces a waveform not far removed from square . |
| 7 | Finally , to attach the pelmet to the board , either attach the firm side of the touch-and-close fastener to the top edge of the board with steel tacks , if using the first method above , or place a strong drawing pin through each pocket on the tape and into the top edge of the board , bending the returns round the ends of the board . |
| 8 | For two neighbouring points on the ( p , T ) diagram this means Expanding by Taylor 's theorem about and using the first equality gives where are changes in v and S respectively at the transition . |
| 9 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 10 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 11 | De Freitas and Small were extremely economical and there were only nine balls left when the total was passed , but with Richards on song — and becoming the first man to score 5,000 runs in one-day internationals — only four wickets went down . |
| 12 | After travelling extensively at home ( and becoming the first Romanov to see Siberia ) , in 1838 and 1839 he toured Europe . |
| 13 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 14 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 15 | To : The Box Office , The Playhouse , The High , Harlow CM20 1LS , and enclosing a first class SAE . |
| 16 | If this solution were not efficient we would have , for some ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n ) , and multiplying the first of these by W K and the remainder by w k and summing gives which would contradict the assumed optimality of ( x 1 * , … , x n ) . |
| 17 | The priest had to act as both choirmaster and precentor , setting the pitch and intoning the first line of each hymn , as well as training his people to sing the Merbecke setting which Father Jackson had adapted for Burmese use . |
| 18 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |
| 19 | He was a pioneer photographer , inventing and selling the first popular exposure meter , and his natural empathy with the countryside is reflected in his photographs . |
| 20 | I confirm that you will be writing extending an invitation to join the group and calling the first meeting for 2p.m. on Tuesday 27th April at the university . |
| 21 | Listening and speaking ; Lado ( 1964 ) explains that this approach to language teaching considers listening and speaking the first task in language learning , followed by the mastering of the reading and writing skills . |
| 22 | Experience is the name of the game , and surviving the first fight is the hard part . |
| 23 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |
| 24 | A drawing attributed to the Persian artist Dust Muhammad , dating from the mid-sixteenth century and depicting the first scene from the tale of ‘ Haftvad and the Worm ’ , bears the estimate of £25–35,000 ( $45–60,000 ) . |
| 25 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 26 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 27 | Paul Crossley has had a unique association with Tippett 's music , commissioning the Third Sonata and giving the first performances of No. 3 and 4 . |
| 28 | One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work . |
| 29 | It 's mainly a question of confidence and taking the first few steps . |
| 30 | As the dawn came she was weak with exhaustion and relief , watching and willing the first barely perceptible lightening of the sky . |