Example sentences of "be in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 2 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
| 3 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 4 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 5 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 6 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 7 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 8 | But the neighbours want the hole moved to where it should have been in the first place . |
| 9 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My father and uncle ( Richard Hindmoor and John Calvert ) are in the first row standing . |
| 11 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 12 | The most important thing is that next season Manchester City are in the First Division . ’ |
| 13 | The most important thing is that next season Manchester City are in the First Division . ’ |
| 14 | Manufacturers DMF Sportswear are in the first year of a three-year deal with Third Division Barnet , who have three weeks to come up with the cash or face High Court action . |
| 15 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
| 16 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
| 17 | To be in the First Division is prestigious , and also lucrative for a club since it ensures large crowds . |
| 18 | You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch . |
| 19 | It is not vital to be in the first row . |
| 20 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 21 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 22 | Sellars sadly does n't seem to be in the first team at Newcastle . |
| 23 | I do nt think anyone would argue that Strach should nt be in the first team . |
| 24 | They should not be in the first rank of share prices to be marked down , but would nevertheless be most unlikely to buck the market trend . |
| 25 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 26 | They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place . |
| 27 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 28 | If we turn the clock back to the beginning of the desktop publishing marketplace in order to trace its development and evolution we first need to establish exactly what desktop publishing was conceived as being in the first place . |
| 29 | She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale . |
| 30 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |