Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 32 | Rothstein deemed that the Act violated the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of expression , and stated that " in order for the flag to endure as a symbol of freedom in this nation , we must protect with equal vigour the right to destroy it and the right to wave it " . |
| 33 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 34 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |
| 35 | The Institute introduced the first video package in 1982 and currently has eight titles available for sale . |
| 36 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 37 | Blanche , smiling blandly so as to appear co-operative , was ushered over to a corner of the room to record the first of a series of television interviews . |
| 38 | The author remembers the first time he was left with his first , brand-new child . |
| 39 | Under the ASB approach , if the seller bears the first £5 of losses on £100 of securitised assets , a net asset of £5 is shown . |
| 40 | England 's record try-scorer held off his tackler , fed younger brother Tony on the loop and the 24-year-old celebrated the first brother partnership in an England line-up for 54 years by scoring in the left-hand corner . |
| 41 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 42 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 43 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 44 | It had the right to annul the first round of voting , if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities , and to organize new elections within two months . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The group meets the first Sat in the month . |
| 47 | In the event , John Conteh dropped down a division and Johnson took his place , proving the legitimacy of his claim by beating two contenders and then the champion to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 48 | There are small ripples , wind-blown , on the lake , where the water catches the first flashes of brilliance from the early sun . |
| 49 | King said : ‘ We got to the byline a lot on Friday which is always encouraging but too often the ball hit the first defender . |
| 50 | But the stark reality they have to accept , after being crushed by a vibrant Coventry side , is that they are now also-rans in the race to become the first champions of the Premier League . |
| 51 | The person to bring the first challenge was Tim Crook , a radio journalist , whose campaign for more open justice to the European Commission led to the reforms contained in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 . |
| 52 | The court chose the first of these two interpretations . |
| 53 | This work , now destroyed or altered , was remarkably innovative , the architect creating the first great baroque ensemble in England , combining architecture , carving ( by Grinling Gibbons , q.v. ) , and painting ( by Antonio Verrio , q.v. ) in a grand and sumptuous suite of staterooms . |
| 54 | The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair . |
| 55 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 56 | If all goes smoothly , she now has the chance to become the first ‘ young British designer ’ to be internationally recognised ( oddly , in the fashion business , designers are believed to be as young as their clothes look , which , in Hamnett 's case , is about 19 ) . |
| 57 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 58 | But in mediaeval woodcuts , on stained-glass windows and in classical Christian art , the apple symbolizes the first sin and Eve is portrayed as the first sinner . |
| 59 | To start the game give the first player the bottle or jar and ask him to hold it on his head . |
| 60 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |