Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 2 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 3 | The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol . |
| 4 | Heavily loaded brushes precisely placed always leave behind smooth , compacted paint , so here I maintained the ‘ breathable ’ quality by allowing the first layer of blue to dry , before applying another slightly different hue in the same way |
| 5 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 6 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 7 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
| 8 | Naming the first person I could think of , I answered St Francis — because he could have chosen to live a life of luxury and ease , but had in fact followed the principles of Christ in giving away all he owned and living a life of poverty . |
| 9 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 10 | In 1694 he paid to Rith Young £34 : 0s. : 4d. , and to John Allam 11 and to Mr. Whinforth for " powder " £2 : 5s. : 9d. — this " powder " must surely be gunpowder , and if so , is the first reference to the use of explosives at the Coniston mines , heralding the first departure from the age-old , and honourable , methods of winning ore and breaking rock . |
| 11 | So ( v ) what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed . |
| 12 | But ( vii ) people do say things , using the first person singular , present tense , of psychological verbs , which are sometimes true , sometimes false . |
| 13 | Is what was said earlier — what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed — true of ‘ I know ’ ? |
| 14 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 15 | You then remove the batten , using the first row of tiles as the guide for the second , and so on . |
| 16 | Statistics were anslysed using the FIRST statistics package ( Serious Statistical Software , Willaston , South Wirral ) . |
| 17 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 18 | Working in a busy office , people have little time to learn the best way and may just ‘ get by ’ , using the first cursor movements they learned . |
| 19 | Using the first generation Ortho-Chiron ELISA , which allows detection of antibodies against recombinant non-structural hepatitis C virus peptides , 58% of Italian autoimmune chronic hepatitis cases , defined as reported above — that is , positive for ANA-H and/or SMA-AA — turned out to be also positive for anti hepatitis C virus . |
| 20 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 21 | The book has been rewritten in consultation with the teachers using the first draft . |
| 22 | For two neighbouring points on the ( p , T ) diagram this means Expanding by Taylor 's theorem about and using the first equality gives where are changes in v and S respectively at the transition . |
| 23 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 24 | Finally , to attach the pelmet to the board , either attach the firm side of the touch-and-close fastener to the top edge of the board with steel tacks , if using the first method above , or place a strong drawing pin through each pocket on the tape and into the top edge of the board , bending the returns round the ends of the board . |
| 25 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 26 | People out enjoying the first weekend of the season on the Thames , watched helplessly , as the Yorkshire Belle exploded in flames at Radcot Bridge . |
| 27 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 28 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 29 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 30 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |