Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 2 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 3 | Well I suppose if you want to work then the first one is |
| 4 | Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first . |
| 5 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 6 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 7 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 8 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 9 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 10 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 11 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 12 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 13 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 14 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 15 | Being a firm believer in the ‘ start 'em young ’ policy but desperate for any player I can get to fill out the first team , I have completely overhauled the youth squad . |
| 16 | In 1701 the Admiralty ordered a squadron to the West Indies , commanded by John Benbow [ q.v. ] , to carry out the first recorded naval therapeutic trials of two chemical medicines invented by Stringer to combat scurvy and fevers . |
| 17 | This research project aims to carry out the first national random sample of Conservative party members in order to explore some of the most important questions concerning their role and importance both within the Conservative party itself and additionally within the wider political system . |
| 18 | In this way many fans were able to miss out the first graduation step and serve a short probation at the back of the terrace . |
| 19 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 20 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 21 | We seem to see here a first concept of temple-decoration , the guardian symbols , beginning to give hesitant way to the idea which was to prevail : the devotion of temple-gables to narrative scenes from myth and legend . |
| 22 | To mention only the first ‘ trope ’ , there are great differences between animals , in the manner of their birth , their way of life , their physical constitution , and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 24 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 25 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 26 | The bus failed to get up the first steep hill it came to . |
| 27 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 28 | Healey was able to pay back the first instalment of £2 billion to the IMF with some ease , and indeed the full IMF loan proved to be unnecessary , while income-tax allowances were raised and a bonus for Christmas could be afforded for old-age pensions . |
| 29 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 30 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |