Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The isolation of the first gene involved in determining ‘ intelligence ’ ( whatever that is ) will be a turning point in human history . |
| 2 | A spokesman for LEEL said they wanted the event to continue , adding : ‘ However , our involvement was in helping to establish the feasibility of the first event . |
| 3 | Hence unc on extraction of the first factor . |
| 4 | That the bulk of the first new wave of Wirral 's heroin users obtained heroin from a single source might seem startling . |
| 5 | The bulk of the first part of this book is devoted to the contractual relationship between the buyer and seller , i.e. the rights and duties between them . |
| 6 | I commend the order to the House to afford continued statutory protection to the very small number of teachers taking up new contracts of employment during any hiatus between the current date of expiry of the 1987 Act and the coming into force of the first pay and conditions order under the 1991 Act . |
| 7 | This reduction will commence on the entry into force of the first CFE agreement . |
| 8 | " Each day " , asserted a French newspaper in 1900 , " the press becomes … more of a diplomatic force of the first order " . |
| 9 | The character of the state had changed decisively from the coercive apparatus of monarchical power to the increasingly bureaucratic ( but determinedly laissez-faire ) administration of the first capitalist nation . |
| 10 | A generation of politicians is now in power whose opinions have been shaped not only by the Stalinist dictatorship but also by the defeat of the first attempts at reform . |
| 11 | Flames gutted the bedroom of a first floor flat in Saltersgill Avenue , Middlesbrough , at the weekend . |
| 12 | The second-half had n't lived up to the football of the first but Tranmere played far better on Friday with less reward . |
| 13 | Karl Egon von Fürstenburg , who died in 1757 , was a president of the first Academy of Sciences . |
| 14 | In Baltimore , Maryland , Julian M. Seidel , former president of the First Maryland Savings and Loan company , and James R. Porter , former senior vice-president of the defunct Silver Springs thrift , were sentenced to 12 and seven years ' imprisonment respectively for falsely inflating the worth of their companies to attract depositors . |
| 15 | But they will also seek new approaches as they record events and the reporting of the first post-Thatcher election . |
| 16 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 17 | The factor which most powerfully predicts deletion is deletion of the first plural element in the string ; if a plural in the phrase is going to be realized by [ s ] , there is a strong tendency for it to be realized on this first element . |
| 18 | Sean had been bought a replacement knife by Wainfleet and had forgiven him the theft of the first . |
| 19 | The Baldwin government which was returned to office in 1924 , after the collapse of the first Labour government , was committed to free trade , the gold standard and rationalization . |
| 20 | In the event the anticipated collapse of the first genetic engineering company amid a pile of bad debts did not come about . |
| 21 | The transcription initiation process in prokaryotes can be formally divided into four major steps : ( a ) binding of the RNA polymerase to the promoter to form a ‘ closed complex ’ , ( b ) isomerization of the closed complex into a structure in which the DNA is melted in the initiation region , forming an ‘ open complex ’ , ( c ) incorporation of the first nucleoside triphosphates ( NTPs ) to produce an initiated complex and , ( d ) transition into an elongation complex that leaves the promoter ( 1,2 ) . |
| 22 | Some remarks made by P. Gurrey in 1931 can serve as an indicator of the closure of the first phase . |
| 23 | Anti-Communism lay behind several setbacks to early Soviet initiatives in the area , notably the closure of the first trading office in Latin America , Iuzhamtorg ( set up in Buenos Aires in 1927 ) , by the military regime of General José Uriburu who came to power in a 1930 coup . |
| 24 | Apart from the 24–21 loss of the First Test , all the members tended to stack up against Ireland during their eight-match tour of New Zealand . |
| 25 | To guard against accidents — such as the loss of the first packet , for example , or a furious spate of activity when the chemists ' were closed — he bought another packet of condoms and secreted them under the lining paper of his sock drawer . |
| 26 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 27 | A charity auction of the first limited edition Children In Need mug made at Alexandra — with the Pudsey logo and a Wedgwood limited edition mark — will also take place on the night . |
| 28 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 29 | Their fluency deceives and leads foreign language teachers to perceive their learners ' command of the first language as perfect by comparison with their knowledge of the foreign language . |
| 30 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |