Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yates 's lawyer , Philippe Grollet , said the rider , from Forest Row , Sussex , tested positive for nostestosteron , a proscribed muscle-building substance , after the first part of the split first stage of the tour on 9 August . |
| 2 | If you want our marriage to have any chance of success you 'd better give her the sack first thing on Monday morning ! ’ |
| 3 | Among those freed were Col. Luisito Sanchez and Capt. Danilo Lim , both of whom were former members of the elite First Scout Ranger regiment which , in 1989 , had occupied Manila 's financial district for a week during a failed coup attempt . |
| 4 | Laurent Fabius , a former Prime Minister ( in 1984-86 ) , appeared to have the support of President Mitterrand , but was opposed by the faction associated with Pierre Mauroy , the PS first secretary and also a former Prime Minister ( in 1981-84 ) , and Lionel Jospin , a former first secretary and the current Minister of National Education , Youth and Sport . |
| 5 | Person deixis concerns the encoding of the role of participants in the speech event in which the utterance in question is delivered : the category first person is the grammaticalization of the speaker 's reference to himself , second person the encoding of the speaker 's reference to one or more addressees , and third person the encoding of reference to persons and entities which are neither speakers nor addressees of the utterance in question . |
| 6 | And it was milk , after they 'd milked the cow first time , after she 'd had a calf , well the first milking , they usually got blood in the milk , you see ? |
| 7 | Pointon should be back and the newly signed Beagrie may play , but Chelsea , the present First Division leaders , will probably field an unchanged side and if Dixon 's revived form continues they should not lose . |
| 8 | Region 's image is First Class NORTHUMBRIA Tourist Board , which wants to promote a more upmarket image for the region , has adopted a new logo carrying the slogan First Class . |
| 9 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 10 | THE GREGSON first aid system comes complete with idiot-proof instructions and is essential for all climbers and hill walkers . |
| 11 | Pursuant to Falkenhayn 's scheme of grinding the French Army to pieces by sheer weight of artillery , the Fifth Army 's guns had orders to move up to new positions as soon as the enemy first line had been overrun . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , however , another career strand had become woven in back at McKinseys where , he said , he had done a number of health service assignments with John Banham ( the future first head of the English Audit Commission before he became director of the Confederation of British Industry ) . |
| 13 | I would normally do the PM first thing tomorrow but they are n't expecting me back at the hospital until Monday and the PM room is tied up until the afternoon . |
| 14 | Baddeley , champion three times in the past , fought grimly and finally took the marathon first game after 24 minutes . |
| 15 | Baddeley , champion three times in the past , fought grimly and finally took the marathon first game after 24 minutes . |
| 16 | As a result of a leading loose horse running across the fence after Becher 's on the second circuit ( the 23rd ) , there was a pile-up and Foinavon was the only horse to jump the fence first time . |
| 17 | The fabbo first prize of a Texas 486SLC TravelMate notebook goes to JR of Leeds who carefully avoids mentioning a certain devious oil magnate in her round up of JRs who might need a Texas TravelMate notebook computer … |
| 18 | He slotted himself in behind the steering-wheel , and started the car first time . |
| 19 | Why had n't she questioned her about her constant visits to the lavatory first thing in the morning ? |
| 20 | ‘ We have the experience to win the trophy first time out , ’ he said , even though Wednesday will face much sterner tests than the 8-1 first-leg rout of Spora . |
| 21 | The overall first quarter total of 406,211 was 11 p.c. lower , according to figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders yesterday . |
| 22 | Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock . |
| 23 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 24 | The secretary did as instructed and passed the test first time . |
| 25 | There were there would n't be very many before the wirst First World War . |
| 26 | He then sucks it into the hollow first joint of a special limb , the pedipalp , rather in the same way as one fills a fountain pen . |
| 27 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 28 | Mr Murrell said : ‘ In the short term we recommend the safety first approach ’ . |
| 29 | To win a prize of any kind is exciting — to have won the Chevron FIRST PRIZE in The Artist 's Art in Nature competition filled me with exultation — and disbelief ! |
| 30 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |