Example sentences of "[art] first [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the failure of attempts to salvage the talks — the first between the two countries since May and originally scheduled for July — they were abandoned on Nov. 6 . |
| 2 | The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting . |
| 3 | The players will train at Bradford next week and have three days together in Wales prior to the game the first between the countries since England won convincingly at Ebbw Vale eight years ago . |
| 4 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 5 | To be the first over the wall of a castle or town which was being stormed ; to be encamped close to the wall of a besieged city and thus within range of missiles fired from its walls , these were acts which merited honour and respect . |
| 6 | And it was the necessarily progressive movement of the dialectic that was to ensure the victory of the first over the second , the success of the revolution . |
| 7 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 8 | The drivers , flushed and cursing , each trying to be the first into the city and to have their wares ready for sale before the city came to life . |
| 9 | A good exhibit is that which commemorates the Pyrenean climbers and their notable ascents , such figures as Count Henry Russell or Ramond de Carbonnières , who was the first into the field and made thirty five separate ascents of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre between the years 1787 and 1810 . |
| 10 | And , as all marketing people know , it 's not always the first into the market that succeeds — more often than not it 's the one that shouts the loudest |
| 11 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 12 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 13 | Mahmud was the first through the door . |
| 14 | The effect of the first past the post electoral system exaggerated trends in regional voting patterns , leaving Labour with one seat only in each of the South East ( excluding Greater London ) , South West and East Anglia — out of 108 , 45 and 20 respectively . |
| 15 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 16 | Leading the field of revived interest in the hard-boiled fiction of Jim Thompson , Stephen Frears ' first American film ( the first off the slate from recently formed Martin Scorsese Productions ) enters a sleazy world of lower echelon crime , focusing on the fatal interaction of small time con Roy ( John Cusack ) , his estranged mother Lily ( Anjelica Huston ) and girlfriend Myra ( Annette Bening ) . |
| 17 | The first one on stage had to be the first off the coach that trundled them to and fro . |
| 18 | O'Leary is the first off the production line . |
| 19 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 20 | London-based HM Systems Plc which , with its Minstrel workstation was one of the first vendors to ship an 80486-based machine , says it also plans to be one of the first off the mark with Pentium machines . |
| 21 | Later the chairman of the Isle of Man Post Office Authority presented Lewin Cain , chairman of Douglas branch , with a framed sheet of stamps — the first off the press — and a donation of £100 for the branch funds . |
| 22 | ‘ Chairman — the first off the mark was Guy Husband from Six ‘ — I 'm sorry to be singing the school song so early , but the Meeting Notice was classified merely as ‘ Secret , . |
| 23 | The bravest man of the week has to be grand prix driver Martin Donnelly … he was back in a formula one car for the first since a near fatal crash in Spain … |
| 24 | THE FALL release their second Cog Sinister/Fontana LP ‘ Shiftwork ’ on April 22 , the first since the controversial departure of Marcia Schofield and Martin Bramah last summer . |
| 25 | In the late 1950s Western Europe was still basking in the afterglow of the 1955 Geneva summit , the first since the war between the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | The Cabinet formed in the reshuffle of Ministers in the autumn of 1985 was the first since the war to contain no women ( apart from the Prime Minister herself ) . |
| 27 | Local elections ( the first since the military coup of 1983 ) were held in December 1990 [ see pp. 37908-09 ] . |
| 28 | The publication of a White Paper in July 1991 followed the government 's July 25 , 1990 , " options for change " defence review , the first since the collapse of the communist regimes on eastern Europe . |
| 29 | Elections in late March 1990 for 10 island councils were the first since the formation of the union territory of Lakshadweep in 1956 . |
| 30 | The major political event of 1990-91 was the promulgation of the new Constitution , the first since the communist victory in 1975 . |