Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 2 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 3 | Our American Allies were all out to see this job through and were full of stories of the RAF on the first trip which was so successful and were even more sure that the second run would be better . |
| 4 | Few literary sources are more revealing of aristocratic culture than the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum and its off shoot the Gesta Ambaziensium Dominorum , produced in the Touraine in the first six decades of the twelfth century , for the pleasure and edification of the counts of Anjou and their castellans , the lords of Amboise . |
| 5 | The procession , which takes place on the Saturday before the first Monday in August , leaves the town hall at 2pm and arrives at the cathedral some two hours later . |
| 6 | Well backed by the huge number of British racegoers who had flocked to the Arc on the first Sunday in October , Dancing Brave started at odds of 11–10 on the Pari-Mutuel to beat his fourteen opponents with Bering second favourite at 11–4 . |
| 7 | The UGT on May 1 held parades and demonstrations jointly with the CCOO for the first time in many years . |
| 8 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 9 | We crossed the western main line by a bridge to get to the G.W.S. Outside the first shed was King George V. We went to see the broad gauge track layout with the transit shed and broad gauge signal and after that took a look at the carriage shed which contained some clerestory coaches . |
| 10 | She stayed with the Cohens for the first seven or eight years of Leonard 's life . ) |
| 11 | I 've played it fast and loose before , and on the rare occasions when I 've disobeyed orders ( in the Rhineland during the First Crusade , in a little whorehouse in the backstreets of Byzantium , and on a cargo ship bearing perfumes from Punt ) I have come up smelling of roses . |
| 12 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
| 13 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 14 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 15 | The fact that Virgin Atlantic had won the licence to fly the Atlantic in the first place was , he said , a brave move on the part of the Civil Aviation Authority , given the Laker experience , but also a measure of government policy . |
| 16 | Pallister will play against the Boro for the first time , on February 26 , since his headline-hitting move three years ago . |
| 17 | There is an introductory intensive skills course which begins on the Monday before the first week of term . |
| 18 | If a Bill is passed by the Commons in two successive sessions having been rejected by the Lords , it can be presented for the Royal Assent provided that one year has elapsed between the date of its second reading in the Commons in the first session and the date of its passing by the Commons in the second session . |
| 19 | We also found Karl Bundt , born of an incestuous union of titled aristocrats who had fled the opprobrium of European society for the Moluccas before the First World War . |
| 20 | HULL face local rivals Hull KR at the Boulevard in the first round of the John Smiths Yorkshire Cup on Sunday week . |
| 21 | Easter was introduced in Rome about the year 160 , and as in Alexandria was celebrated on the Sunday following the Hebrew Passover , which for practical purposes could be reckoned as the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox . |
| 22 | In due time the Latin Church decreed that Easter should be ‘ celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon on or after 21 March ’ , and although this simplified matters slightly Easter Day might still fall on any one of thirty-five days , starting with 22 March and ending with 25 April , and the whole of the calendar was controlled by this wide spectrum . |
| 23 | We have done well in our provincial fixtures , with notable exceptions against the Maoris in the first half and in the defeat by Otago . |
| 24 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
| 25 | Of them all , she was most like the Anna of the first meetings . |
| 26 | Five new channels offering Digital Stereo Sound and , with the new D-Mac transmission system , improved picture quality will be available in the UK for the first time . |
| 27 | Unikix , the 18-month-old CICS-for-Unix product pioneered by Unicorn Systems Inc and now owned by Groupe Bull SA , is now being launched into the UK for the first time by Brentford , Middlesex-based Bull Information Systems Ltd . |
| 28 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
| 29 | From it Gregory learnt about the activities of the Franks in the first decades of the fifth century , including their involvement in the civil wars which followed the usurpation by Constantine III . |
| 30 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |