Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 32 | ‘ from the day the first palaeolithic warrior smashed a rock into a small animal , violence has been used to produce wealth ’ . |
| 33 | Now the important thing about this document is that you 'll receive it on the day the first day of your assignment . |
| 34 | Tough tackling and controlled possession by Woodmill were the dominant features of extra time and no goals resulted , making the game the first of the tournament to go to penalties . |
| 35 | On the start of the game the first child from each team pops their balloon by jumping on it . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Down on the ground the first thing to be heard is a distant squeal , and a sharp-sighted man might just discern a black dot like a bird high in the sky . |
| 38 | A half-mile south of the bridge the first French staff officers were rifling the mail in Charleroi 's post office in search of letters which might have been posted by Allied officers and thus provide clues of British or Prussian plans . |
| 39 | Northern GRAMOPHONE readers ( and surely many southerners as well ) will join me in welcoming back to the catalogue the first of James Loughran 's Hallé Orchestra has always shown a special feeling for Brahms 's sound , and Loughran is also a highly responsive Brahmsian , flexibly spontaneous in his sense of line , yet at the same time demonstrating a comparable structural grasp . |
| 40 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 41 | I also told her that there was no guarantee that she would come up with the answer the first time she was regressed , as this would be a new experience for her and her ever-protective subconscious would not want her to be upset in any way . |
| 42 | To her dismay , as she pushed open the door of the treatment-room the first person she set eyes on was David Markham . |
| 43 | Each year of the cycle the first tithe was paid to the Levites ( with the exception of the Sabbath ) and on the third and sixth year of the cycle the second tithe was a poor tithe . |
| 44 | And so it is with Wattana , who , in a psychological move during a recent Matchroom League clash , showed he is hardly in awe of Hendry when he won five successive frames before scattering the balls to ‘ allow ’ the Scot the first of three consolation frames . |
| 45 | ‘ I set your name up on the account the first time we met . |
| 46 | It is convenient to write such a relation in the form The first relation was proposed by Rivlin to describe rubber elasticity . |
| 47 | In The Form the first two degrees of love seem to correspond to the stages in the contemplative 's life that Rolle has addressed in chapters one to six . |
| 48 | As Julie finally found a parking space close to the bank the first droplets of rain were striking the windscreen of the car , like oversized tears . |
| 49 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 50 | Throughout the book the first two levels of analysis are discussed in close relation to the study of theme and characterisation in fiction . |
| 51 | Sun was expecting to deliver hundreds of Tsunami boxes around the world the first weekend in November and to have thousands going out the door the beginning of December . |
| 52 | In the end the first officer shouted to them : |
| 53 | The judges had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the 340 entries , but in the end the first prize , a bronze mounted otter , went to 10-year-old Helen Laughton from Cheadle , Cheshire . |
| 54 | The defeat for Boro was of little significance and in the end the first division experience of several of the Danes had a telling effect . |
| 55 | Later in the year the first of a series of athletic matches between School and Stockport School was held , organized by the respective P.E . |
| 56 | This is the way the first power companies worked . |
| 57 | However , the first result is not recorded in the Standard until six months later in May 1909 although in the meantime the first bi-monthly bogey competition was played , in October 1908 , and won by C. Hubbard ( handicap 10 ) . |
| 58 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 59 | In the meantime the first effects of the diversion have been reported in Hungary . |
| 60 | During the raid the first of the twelve Boeing B–17s from the mainland arrived . |