Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By 1976 , the Government decided it had to act and that led to the first TV campaign with the line ‘ Do n't take your car for a drink ’ . ’ |
| 2 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 4 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 5 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 6 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 7 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 8 | Partly this is a matter of time and related to the first problem discussed above . |
| 9 | Second , and related to the first point , the model of man as a violent animal — and hence self-seeking and violent in the pursuit of attaining his goals — is useful as a justification for authority and institutions of authority . |
| 10 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 11 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 12 | Robert Kennedy , who played a notable role throughout the crisis , suggested that the President should ignore this second letter and reply to the first in the affirmative . |
| 13 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 14 | Finally , and to return to the first century AD , although Christianity inherited much from its Judaic roots , it did not embrace the need for circumcision . |
| 15 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 16 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 17 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |