Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [be] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 2 | The date for the election was at first announced for November 26 . |
| 3 | In the end , however , the decision was at first deferred , and then quietly abandoned . |
| 4 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 5 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 6 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 7 | Russia chose the latter option , and her campaign in the south was at first to have a most promising outcome . |
| 8 | When the Wolof children were asked to put together the pictures or objects in an array that were most alike and to give their reasons , the question was at first put in the form ‘ Why do you say ( or think ) that these are alike ? ’ . |
| 9 | The tramway was at first operated by horses which were stabled at the rear of the present Ashby 's butchers shop . |
| 10 | The paintings were at first estimated at FFr4–5 million by Paris expert Eric Turquin and their sale was planned to help purchase a scanner for the hospital . |
| 11 | The lecturer was at first impatient at being called from a tutorial session , before his vanity was fed the magical words of ‘ Foreign and Commonwealth Office ’ . |
| 12 | This is achieved if the relations are in first normal form and all non-key attributes are fully functionally dependent on all the key . |
| 13 | The sporophore is at first a whitish-grey , unpleasant-looking fleshy growth and gradually becomes more leathery and dewy . |
| 14 | The reception of the schema was at first fairly favourable , but gradually became more and more hostile , with Cardinal Heenan of Westminster emerging as perhaps the harshest critic . |
| 15 | Even the governor is on first name terms with the inmates , although the staff still keep a respectful distance . |
| 16 | The Aten was at first described as " the living Re-Harakhty who rejoices in the horizon in his name Shu ( light ) who is Aten " and later as " the living Re , ruler of the Two Horizons , who rejoices in the horizon in his name of Re the father who returns as Aten " . |
| 17 | The relevant fact is that , if two solutions are mixed in a petri dish or other container , and allowed to stand , the mixture is at first a uniform brown , but this homogeneous state is not stable . |
| 18 | Although the tunnel was at first rejected on the grounds of cost , eventually in 1872 the Severn Tunnel Bill was passed by Parliament and construction began the following year . |
| 19 | At Diego Garcia Island , 3,647 kilometres away ( in the Indian Ocean ) , the sounds of the explosions were at first thought to be coming from a ship in distress , firing its guns to attract attention , so the people ran out to vantage points on the coast of the island to try to see it . |
| 20 | The nature of the intimidation was at first quite subtle . |
| 21 | Its use in the liturgy was at first opposed by the papacy , but , following the Council of Split in 1079 , both the Old Church Slavonic language and the glagolitic script were permitted to exist in central Dalmatia . |
| 22 | The appearance of the book is at first glance like that of any other glossy book about the Royals . |
| 23 | The press was at first unhelpful in either explaining or interpreting the events . |
| 24 | For particular kinds of chemical reaction , and for particular diffusion rates , it turns out that , even if the reactants are at first distributed uniformly throughout the medium , a regular pattern appears , with substances concentrated in some regions and almost absent from others . |
| 25 | The company was at first commanded by a Captain Short , and later by Major H.M. Williams , who was also on the staff of the LNWR Carriage Department . |
| 26 | The Bolsheviks at least promised to tackle regional socio-economic backwardness , and their bureaucratic intervention in the localities was at first less oppressive in some ways than in the Tsarist past simply for lack of personnel . |
| 27 | The conversion was at first a family secret ; when it leaked out to the neighbours the Murphys fled to Dublin , where William worked in his teens in a boot shop . |
| 28 | A decision was at first postponed but permission was granted later in the year . |
| 29 | Sometimes an event is at first delayed but then things happen fast . |