Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | Following the religious ceremony , Monsignor Olavio Lpez Duque blessed a memorial plaque symbolising the first stone of the central processing facilities ( CPF ) . |
| 3 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 4 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 5 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 6 | Analysis of -300bp human NF-L promoter deletion lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites ( HS5A and HS5B ) in adult and embryonic stage trangenic mice . |
| 7 | Blyth Wright starting the first pitch of The Bat — the traverse to the Hoodie Groove . |
| 8 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
| 9 | The patrols searching the first group of farms around the village of Pontino were the only ones to bring the Captain anything when they returned , muddy and exhausted , after their double shift . |
| 10 | In their application to authenticity testing the first consideration is whether the sample size required is likely to inflict unacceptable damage . |
| 11 | The examples listed here were all from hoards , and included a dish depicting the First Labour : the hero strangling the Nemean Lion . |
| 12 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 13 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 14 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 15 | Contemporary idealism , however , dates from the period following the First World War when , partly as a reaction to the horrors of the war , it briefly achieved prominence as an approach to global politics , influencing academics and politicians . |
| 16 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 17 | Fourteen healthy adult subjects then collected urine specimens before and within an hour after their normal breakfast , to assess the fall in urine acid output accompanying the first meal of the day . |
| 18 | When you reach a signpost saying White Creek and Arnside , cross the broken wall , turn left and soon you emerge onto a grassy clearing giving a first class view onto the sands — and no wood ants ! |
| 19 | This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year . |
| 20 | First of all , the discipline originated in two countries which were essentially satisfied powers following the First World War . |
| 21 | And of course , pen computing is also to the fore , with TriGem announcing the first pen starter pack priced at under £2,000 . |
| 22 | This is Anne Loye receiving the First Prize in a Fitness competition held at a Butlin 's Holiday Camp . |
| 23 | In October 1992 , the SCOTVEC piloting team sent a specially-designed questionnaire to all centres offering the first batch of general SVQs . |
| 24 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 25 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |
| 26 | The second part of this procedure ( 8.2 Archiving ) will be carried out between 08.00 and 08.30 on the morning following the first part of the procedure . |
| 27 | The book has been rewritten in consultation with the teachers using the first draft . |
| 28 | Not a ripple of turbulence disturbed the climb to 5000 ft where a slow orbit brought a stunning panorama of Cumbrian mountains rising like whales from a misty sea , the Galloway , Pennine and Howgill hills all etched in fine outline catching the first sun . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |