Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning in the forearc zone and moving towards the volcanic arc the first feature encountered is the trench which rises to the outer-arc ridge . |
| 2 | I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested . |
| 3 | THE Royal Ordnance Factory at Leeds yesterday delivered to the British Army the first production version of the Challenger tank , less than three years after the Ministry of Defence ordered the vehicle.The army is receiving more than 200 Challengers , costing about £300 million , to beef up its defences in Germany against Soviet tanks . |
| 4 | In the imperial affair the first person to act on behalf of the pope was Monaco de Villa , a Milanese , who had been appointed by Otto as plenipotentiary to deal with the pope . |
| 5 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 6 | The overall structure The first requirement of clarity is a clear structure . |
| 7 | In 1928 the opinion of the crews was sought about the enclosing of drivers ' platforms with a vestibule , and in the following year the first car was enclosed . |
| 8 | By 1910 revised maps and detailed memoirs had been published on the Edinburgh and East Lothian districts and the following year the first comprehensive account of the Glasgow area was issued . |
| 9 | In 1857 he was promoted to locomotive superintendent of the northern division , covering all routes of the LNWR north of Rugby , at Crewe works where in the following year the first of almost 1,000 of his 0–6–0 type freight locomotives were built . |
| 10 | But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers . |
| 11 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 12 | Under the eight-day ruling the first available date for another replay between Portsmouth and Liverpool was May 4 . |
| 13 | It will be in everyone 's interests to ensure that accounts are taken and valuations made promptly and , perhaps , if the involvement of a third party as independent valuer , arbitrator or mediator is contemplated to break any deadlock , that a time limit be imposed for agreement inter partes. ( b ) Calculation of what is due to the outgoing partner The first and obvious step in the valuation process is the taking of an account up to the date when the outgoing partner dies or leaves the firm , unless that happens or ( except in the case of a death or bankruptcy ) is made to happen at the end of the firm 's normal accounting period . |
| 14 | On the other hand the first Chancellor of the University and two of the University 's chief benefactors , Harry and Melville Wills , each lived and died as plan Mr Wills . |
| 15 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 16 | In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken . |
| 17 | As soon as you shall have considered the whole subject the First Commissioner will be glad to receive from you probationary sketches of the Plans and Design generally , and he will then give you further instructions with reference to the future preparation of detailed plans , specifications and estimates . |
| 18 | In the senior competition the first prize of the Bishop Harris Cup and £50 was won by Richard Owen of St John 's School , Bishop Auckland . |
| 19 | By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war . |
| 20 | For at a conference in London , Russian space scientists awarded a British company the first foreign franchise to sell pictures from their most powerful orbiting cameras . |
| 21 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 22 | Of his designs in a classical manner the first identified was a proposal of 1752 — in the form of an Italianate palazzo and based in part on an elevation in Sebastiano Serlio 's Tutte L'Opera D'Architettura ( book vii , p. 49 ) — for rebuilding Hagley Hall , Worcestershire , for Sir George ( later first Baron ) Lyttelton [ q.v. ] ; but this was rejected in favour of a conventionally Palladian one by Sanderson Miller [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Following a general election the first task of the new legislature was to choose the country 's President and Vice-President from amongst its four at-large senators . |
| 24 | WHAT A statistical thrill the first day of the fourth Test gave us ! |
| 25 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 26 | As an introductory offer the first 1,000 brochures to be sent will include a 10% discount voucher . |
| 27 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 28 | When you are looking for insurance cover or considering the renewal of an existing policy the first thing you should consider is who to insure through . |