Example sentences of "perhaps [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |
| 2 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps the first step towards achieving this balance of ability is to be able to use both left and right sides with equal effectiveness . |
| 4 | The best stories , though , are perhaps the first , about a middle-aged bachelor farming alone after his mother dies , and the last , about a member of the village brass band picking up a woman on a bus trip to Venice . |
| 5 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 6 | James ( 1890 ) was perhaps the first to offer what amounts to an associative account of the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 7 | Charles Kingsley , writing of the final destruction of the Fens , was perhaps the first to regret the loss of what must have been one of the finest natural systems in Europe . |
| 8 | Perhaps the first essential will sound trivial . |
| 9 | Perhaps the first half concentrates too long on Charlie , his half brother , Syd , and their mother in the struggling days to the detriment of more detailed excerpts from the early days of film-making in what was to become Hollywood . |
| 10 | When a Type 2 patient requires insulin , perhaps the first question to ask is ‘ One or two injections a day ? ’ |
| 11 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 12 | One of the first people , perhaps the first , to spot that biological polymers would tend to be helical was a Californian physicist , H. R. Crane . |
| 13 | Attlee was ecstatic about the idea of his viceroy staying on , perceiving it as ‘ a great boost for Britain and for the Commonwealth ’ , a sentiment shared by the now fully evolved Commonwealth statesman — he had been perhaps the first to see the possibilities of the role — General Smuts : ‘ This does not look like quitting ’ , he cabled to Attlee on hearing the news . |
| 14 | Perhaps the first point that needs to be made is that the relationship between use and learning differs in respect to first and second language situations . |
| 15 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 16 | In March this year , on stage in London , Barry White lifted a tiny conductor 's baton in his huge hand to launch his Love Unlimited Orchestra into ‘ Love 's Theme ’ , perhaps the first disco pop hit back in 1974 . |
| 17 | Was this , perhaps the first 5-point try scored in this country ? |
| 18 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 19 | Perhaps the first significant initiative came from France , although the Dutch politician , Sicco Mansholt , had already drafted a plan for agricultural free trade that would benefit Western Europe as a whole , but especially the cost-effective Netherlands agricultural industry . |
| 20 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 21 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 22 | Perhaps the first thing to realise is that learning is not a linear business . |
| 23 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 24 | Perhaps the first assumption is that of the demarcation lines between subjects : what makes something a ‘ science ’ , what makes chemistry different from biology . |
| 25 | Perhaps the first thing we can note about all three departments is the formality of the relationship between students and staff : a formality which is reflected in the teaching methods . |
| 26 | Whilst such an interpretation of three-dimensional spaces may create a slightly confused image when all three laminas are visible , it is perhaps the first step towards full modelling . |
| 27 | So perhaps the first thing to say is that , as with the story , there is a considerable art of the pacing of humour . |
| 28 | It is a compromise between all three , with perhaps the first least apparent and the third most in evidence . |
| 29 | Though understanding is perhaps the first step . |
| 30 | Perhaps the first thing to realise is that not all page printers use laser beams ; there are many other successful technologies including LED arrays , LCD shutters , ink-jet , magneto-deposition and ion-deposition . |