Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [that] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the way it is said that the Tour de France does not really begin until it reaches the Alps , the cognoscenti contend that the first 63 holes are jockeying for position . |
| 2 | Admissible algorithms guarantee that the first spanning path found will be the highest scoring . |
| 3 | He also submitted that it was essential that a jury should reach a rational conclusion by a rational process of thought , and he further submitted that it was wholly irrational for them in effect to hold that the first appellant did not act in concert with the second appellant , but that the second appellant acted in concert with the first appellant . |
| 4 | Its supporters claim that the first would be the first step towards a test reactor that would burn plasma for long periods . |
| 5 | Mr Lang said that the first priority of Scottish teachers should be to ensure their pupils were literate and numerate . |
| 6 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 7 | At half-past ten , the sound of voices below the library window indicated that the first lesson of the day was over and that coffee was about to be served . |
| 8 | An income tax plus an allowance OA implies that the first OA pounds of pre-tax income are still retained after-tax . |
| 9 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Morrit held that the first payment of £4,000 on 30 January together with the monthly sum of £1,000 by banker 's order was not enough to discharge in full the invoice for January 's work by the accountants , which was £5,307.25 . |
| 11 | Nehru , having accepted Commonwealth membership , was content to pay Mountbatten the compliment ; Jinnah announced that the first Governor-General of Pakistan would be himself . |
| 12 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 13 | Most economists expect that the first real signs of an upturn will not appear until second-quarter figures are available . |
| 14 | Astronomical computations show that the first day of the two calendars agreed in the year 2773 BC , and it has been concluded that this was when the Sothic calendar was introduced . |
| 15 | ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years . |
| 16 | So I went in person to enquire what had happened to it , and after several more weeks heard that a first edition of fifty thousand copies was being printed . |
| 17 | Labov notes that the first type of approach appears to work best in working-class neighbourhoods while the second is more successful in middle-class neighbourhoods . |
| 18 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 19 | The Saturday morning sport Outreach scheme was successful and Mrs. Wilson hoped that the first of the affordable homes would be completed by August . |
| 20 | SDLP leader Mr John Hume said that the first question he is asked by potential investors is : ‘ Will we be safe in Northern Ireland ? ’ |
| 21 | The draft Approved Document also contains a provision requiring that the first occupants of a dwelling must receive instructions on how to look after the smoke detector system that has been installed . |
| 22 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 23 | The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down . |
| 24 | In the 1960s there is evidence that the process of equalisation began to slow down somewhat and statistics suggest that the first oil shock of 1973 actually reversed the trend altogether with disparities tending to widen . |
| 25 | Mr. Beloff submits that the first question we have to answer is : is there any known rule of natural justice that a person who is not the subject of an administrative decision should nevertheless have the right to make representations before the decision is made ? |
| 26 | These observations show that the first absorption band of at 37 900 cm -1 consists of two electronic transitions . |
| 27 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 28 | She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress . |
| 29 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 30 | But the PHLS warned that the first six months of the year were always lower risk times because of the colder weather , and said figures for the third-quarter could be higher . |