Example sentences of "[art] [noun] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the afternoon the first peals of thunder rolled across the sky . |
| 2 | Despite the dangers the first crew want to return … this time to help the child victims of the conflict . |
| 3 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 4 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 5 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 6 | In the Netherlands the First Chamber approved ratification of the Treaty by acclamation on Dec. 15 [ for November approval by Second Chamber see p. 39205 ] . |
| 7 | Graham Taylor selected Clough as it became clear that Nottingham Forest have finally signed a transfer form which makes the striker the first summer addition to Souness 's squad . |
| 8 | Dougal was so cold that he dropped the key the first time he put it in the lock . |
| 9 | As you may recall , last season we failed to get our name drawn from the Vase hat and , remembering past FA Cup fiascos , I gave the lads the first round Saturday off . |
| 10 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 11 | And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 . |
| 12 | Then Shelley felt a shiver of anticipation , as she remembered the effect the first sight of the handsome Miguelito had on her . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed up with IBM Corp 's Metaphor Computer Systems Inc for joint development and marketing of software to provide access from Metaphor 's Data Interpretation System decision support software to HP 9000 Series 800 Precision Architecture servers , making the machine the first non-IBM computer for the product . |
| 14 | This is equal to Integrating by parts gives In the brackets the first term is zero because — " vanishes at the surface . |
| 15 | Accompanying the conference is a major exhibition at the Museum the first of FIDEM 's biennial contemporary medal exhibitions to be held in Britain entitled ‘ In the Round : contemporary art medals of the world ’ featuring 1,300 contemporary medals selected by the national delegates of FIDEM ( until 25 October ) . |
| 16 | With the fall of the village the first phase of the battle ended , and an even grimmer one began . |
| 17 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 18 | Immediately after this big moment the earth is convulsed with horror we have Eve 's first speech , presumably after the fall the first speech in a state of sin , and this is it ‘ Oh sovereign virtuous , precious of all trees in Paradise , of operation blest to sapinense hitherto obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to not end created , but henceforth my early care not without song each morning and dew/due pray shall tend thee and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches offered free to all . |
| 19 | In 1981 at Bergkaman in the Rühr the first major new mine for 17 years was opened . |
| 20 | In kinship relations such as the avunculate the first order elements are the family relationship terms of father , uncle , mother , son , nephew . |
| 21 | French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . |
| 22 | From then there would be seven hours of golf , from the moment the first pro drove off till the final putt dropped on the 18th green . |
| 23 | Over the years the first edition ( 1954 ) of this work has acquired something of the aura of a ‘ classic ’ text , and one or other of the editions is never likely to stray far from the student petrographer 's microscope . |
| 24 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
| 25 | On the landing the first door on the left opened up a walk-in cupboard . |
| 26 | I actually had to curtail part of the business the first time . |
| 27 | The take-over the first time a South African bank has bought a British bank values Ansbacher at £57.8m . |
| 28 | Shortly after the war the first commercial computers were developed . |
| 29 | And she was taken away then in when the war the first world war began |
| 30 | Earlier in the evening the first year food technology student , who had heart surgery in 1987 , had been at a disco in the Students Union . |