Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [that] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 9 | Yet , when will he and others of like mentality realise that the first rule of the road must always be to give priority to unprotected people , whatever the circumstances ? |
| 10 | The Newton Personal Digital Assistants from Apple Computer Inc will be built around the Advanced RISC Computing Ltd ARM610 RISC : Apple says that the first version of Newton will be out early next year , and will be an electronic notepad , able to record and recognise handwriting and to straighten out rough sketches ; Cambridge-based Advanced RISC Machines , which is owned by Acorn Computers Plc , Apple and VLSI Technology Inc says that Newton has an object-oriented executive and that the memory manager in the ARM610 provides specific support for object-oriented data handling . |
| 11 | The Middlesbrough Cycling News recorded that the first ‘ Smoker Night ’ was to be held ‘ in honour of one of its achievements in the cycling events . ’ |
| 12 | The Securities and Futures Authority proposes that the first £5m of any levy on its members would continue to be raised on a weighted , registered persons basis , taking account of the amount of business conducted with private clients . |
| 13 | If British Rail feels that the first stage of the channel tunnel rail link to Stratford and King 's Cross does not offer immediate opportunities for a freight route , there is something seriously amiss in its thinking . |
| 14 | Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs . |
| 15 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 16 | It would be a basic mistake to assume that the first correct answer is the only one that exists , so the scientist will conduct further experiments , trying all the time to prove the hypothesis wrong . |
| 17 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |
| 18 | Remarkably , Halifax 's performance meant that the First Division leaders Wigan , 66-0 winners in a 12-try romp at Barrow , were not the day 's top scorers . |
| 19 | Seán Mac Stíofáin indicates that the first time the leadership discussed the civil rights movement was when |
| 20 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 21 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 22 | Russian radio reported that the first group of 14th Army troops had left Moldova on May 26 , and that airborne units stationed in Kishinev would withdraw between June 15 and Sept. 1 . |
| 23 | The recent greening of the world means that the first clover of summer is greeted with an enthusiasm previously reserved for the cuckoo . |
| 24 | Now while there is no reason to doubt that the first kind of structure contributes in one way or another to the effect of the poem , it can be and has been argued ( Riffaterre 1966 : 206ff. ) that the second is in most cases irrelevant to the text 's poetic status , since it tends to fall well below the ordinary reader 's level of consciousness . |
| 25 | On the more unhappy subject of Northern Ireland , in the light of the appalling horrors which last night added to the seemingly endless litany of tragedy in that unhappy Province , does the Prime Minister agree that the first condition for defeating terrorism in Northern Ireland is to ensure that the politicians there get together and work together ? |
| 26 | The company said that the first six months of the year ‘ have seen more new business than during any previous period ’ . |
| 27 | If it came to constitutional change , he would prefer it to involve the introduction of direct presidential elections — no doubt hoping that the first directly elected president would be none other than himself . |
| 28 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 29 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 30 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |