Example sentences of "[noun prp] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For both Chesterton and Williamson the first World War was a searing experience which provided lasting images of heroism , horror , comradeship , leadership and fear . |
| 2 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 3 | Right so that was C one , C two it is a hundred and fifty miles from Hereford to London by rail Hereford is north of Cheltenham , it 's going up from Cheltenham is Hereford the first train in the morning takes three hours for the journey what 's its average speed ? |
| 4 | At Old Windsor the first group of five were Pavelka/Gots , Jannis/Jannis , Valerosi/Rossi , Ballard/Slater and Williams/Martin . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | Now , were Opren the first drug disaster presided over by CSM it might , to parody Oscar Wilde , have been reasonably ascribed to misfortune . |
| 8 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 9 | You know , Shelley , I suspected there was something between you and Rafaelo the first time I talked to him . |
| 10 | because we have , because it 's for the children , so I said we 'll do it , but that gives us an awful crush to get it in Friday the first week |
| 11 | The partnership between Campbell and former Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright has produced seven goals in five games , making Arsenal the First Division 's top scorers . |
| 12 | In Darcy 's Utopia the first rule of education will be that in any school the teachers shall outnumber the pupils , and no pupil need attend who does not wish to do so . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales kissed his wife in public in February the first time in four years as she presented prizes to players in his polo match on their Indian tour . |
| 14 | On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit . |
| 15 | At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort . |
| 16 | We 're hoping to say with on Thursday night , and then Friday & Saturday I will be at Hanbury Manor ( what a hardship ! ) , sharing with Heather the first night and Auntie the second . |
| 17 | Well their itinerary was something like er January the first Cologne . |
| 18 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 19 | In his time the year was usually indicated by the name of an official , for example at Athens the first archon and at Sparta the first ephor . |
| 20 | T. D. The first time I saw a football was when a caseball hit a horse in the face , and the horse reared up . |
| 21 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 22 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 23 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 24 | She came to the post office the next evening , and the next , buying tea and a comb of honey from Lizzie the first evening , posting a letter at Annie 's counter on the Friday , waiting till the mail was sorted , each time managing to leave the post office alone with Moran . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , there is in the air at Blackpool a first whiff of post-Thatcher . |
| 26 | In July 1992 , the Government finally produced its White Paper ‘ New Opportunities for the Railways ’ and in October the first consultation document ‘ The Franchising of Passenger Rail Services ’ appeared . |
| 27 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 28 | As we shall see later , there is therefore some force in the stock examination question : was Tylor the first alliance theorist |
| 29 | So thought I. The first part was okay when we got the squad marching the 50 yards , but I was the only one that did not see that someone had dug a trench in the line of march , and in one step leapt over the trench in perfect style . |
| 30 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |