Example sentences of "[art] first [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Church leaders in Gloucester have named the date for the ordination of the first women priests in the diocese . |
| 2 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 3 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 4 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 5 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 6 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 7 | The single-sex environment of mid-nineteenth-century US women 's colleges seems to have provided a uniquely supportive environment for the first women psychologists , for example ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 ) . |
| 8 | The first women newsreaders had a difficult time because they were constantly ‘ filtered ’ through their sexuality . |
| 9 | A star item of a different kind was T.H. Gillespie 's Story of the Edinburgh Zoo , for it contains illustrations by Nancy Brackett , one of the first women elders at St.A 's & St.G 's . |
| 10 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 11 | The first women inspectors were appointed in April 1942 , but were withdrawn shortly afterwards following objections from the remaining men . |
| 12 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 13 | The first personnel carriers rumbled out of the main gate , blocking the workday traffic , and he watched them now with envy because they were off to play soldiers and he had n't been invited . |
| 14 | Following the success of the first Alumni Teachers ' Meeting at the University 's Schools ' Open Day , it is intended that such meetings will become a regular event . |
| 15 | And as soon as the the first ones forefeet touch the deck of the boat , the boat just disappeared and it was the trolls that was taking him home . |
| 16 | The study now reported began with the author recognising from an examination of the name ‘ Forsey ’ that although the second syllable had obviously developed from the Anglo-Saxon haeg ( with the noun prefix ge ) and the Middle English hei/hey , meaning enclosure , it seemed unlikely that the first syllables fors and furs were descended from the same root word , and the fact that Dr Reaney had cited widely separated counties for their ( rather late ) emergence was a further slight pointer . |
| 17 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 18 | She was in her first-floor sitting room , secure in her easy chair , when she heard the first sirens , saw the first police cars turn into her street . |
| 19 | The first police dogs to come to Finland were in 1908 . |
| 20 | The first shareholder-relations programmes , run by AT&T and General Electric , consisted simply of a telephone-answering service for routine inquiries . |
| 21 | Unisys Corp added two new workstations to the CTOS SuperGen line of networked commercial workstations : the SuperGen 3000 and SuperGen 1000 are the first CTOS systems based on Unisys personal computers using standard architecture ; the SuperGen 3000 is a fully featured Intel Corp 80486SL-based client workstation at about $2,000 and available now , the SuperGen 1000 costs about $3,000 and will be available next month . |