Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] first " in BNC.
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1 | The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting . |
2 | The index set defined first is known as the prime index , to distinguish it from the alternate indexes . |
3 | The remuneration system depends first of all , to some degree , on ‘ Buggins ’ turn' , and the discretionary element which is a feature of most remuneration systems these days is entirely based on pleasing your boss of the moment . |
4 | What causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise first , and how does the body clock develop later ? |
5 | The trainer shoes came first , then the ankle-socks . |
6 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
7 | ‘ The footman soldiers came first with their muskets under their arms , the noses of the muskets being behind them . |
8 | When there is a dispute between nations that could bring a threat to peace , the Security Council listens first to all sides of the argument . |
9 | The Boarding House had first been produced at the Lyceum Theatre , London , in 1811 , but we have no record of when Vale first began acting , only that , according to the Gentleman 's Magazine , he made his ‘ metropolitan début at the Olympic under the management of the late Mr Wrench ’ ( Benjamin Wrench , q.v . ) . |
10 | The control unit executed first the left-hand instruction , then the right-instruction , of each word in the program . |
11 | Well we 'll get the motor work done first |
12 | In the morning Sam rose first and went back to her own room to dress . |
13 | Yachts may go the the government wharf to clear first immigration and second customs . |
14 | This alteration , small and innocent-looking though it is , settles the chronological relation between the two versions of the passage : the one in the theatre score came first . |
15 | In the Gold Coast the last sentiment was potentially practical politics , for mass politicisation had begun among two important sections of the people of the coast , the cocoa farmers and the ex-servicemen : indeed , the cocoa farmers had first flexed their muscles in 1937 when they refused to sell to the European firms who bought 98 per cent of their crop ( fixing the market ) and also imposed a boycott on European imports . |
16 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
17 | What can the County Council do first of all to stop people moving house and secondly , to stop people stop d to prevent any change in the number and distribution of second homes ? |
18 | The appellant Wright came first in December 1990 and kept returning . |
19 | A member of the Residence hotel group , the Hotel Murren offers first class accommodation , comfort and excellent facilities . |
20 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
21 | Lastly I fear that because the Mathematics programmes came first and were so well organised and established , with the neat sequential task of curriculum development so easy to define ( despite its obvious size ) , there may have been a tendency to concentrate scarce resources upon an item which , on sober reflection , I believe now to be a lowish priority in the primary curriculum . |
22 | Despite the variety and the complexity , the animal work indicates first and foremost that mate choice can be profoundly influenced by early experience . |
23 | I 'd like the Laboratory building checked first , and as quickly as possible so that the staff can get back to work . |
24 | The merger move had first been announced by the Serbian communists on June 7 , with the Socialist Alliance expressing itself in favour on July 5 . |
25 | At Huddersfield he developed into an expert practitioner of the art of inside passing , a tactic Chapman had first encouraged at Northampton and preferred to long centres from the wing . |
26 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
27 | Her father himself had been an army officer trained first in St Petersburg and then in France , . |
28 | However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal . |