Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data General Corp , the British Computer Society , the Scottish Office Industry Department and the Department of Trade and Industry are co-sponsoring the first Scottish Open Systems conference , which takes place at the Ibrox Stadium — home to Glasgow Rangers football club — on May 14th . |
| 2 | a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 . |
| 3 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 4 | Peasants who have returned to their lands in the heart of El Salvador 's war zone are celebrating the first anniversary of a daring experiment . |
| 5 | Sally Lescher 's Conservation Management is giving a first exhibition in London to Glaswegian portraitist , John Boyd ( to 24 July ) , whose thickly brushed nude studies and landscapes have won admiration in Scotland . |
| 6 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 7 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 8 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 9 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 10 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 11 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 12 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 13 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 14 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 15 | The Open Software Foundation is to reveal the first snapshot of its Distributed Management Environment architecture after its members meeting in Munich on the 13th . |
| 16 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 17 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 18 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 19 | The Library is exhibiting the first of series of paintings produced by members of Eve Bennett 's RBGE Botanical Painting Course . |
| 20 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 21 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 22 | Once a Bill is read a first time , it can be printed and is usually available the next day . |
| 23 | A Member simply gives notice and eventually moves that the Bill be read a first time . |
| 24 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 25 | Elisabeth Valley is presenting a first solo exhibition by Sébastien De Ganay , whose paintings incorporate jetsam of various kinds . |
| 26 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 27 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 28 | If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’ |
| 29 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 30 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |