Example sentences of "of [art] first [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences . |
| 2 | One of the first such histories was written by the French writer and philosopher Montesquieu in the middle of the eighteenth century under the title The Spirit of the Laws . |
| 3 | One of the first such dogs was Mrs Hall 's Stromhall Torrey CH CDex UDex TD . |
| 4 | Had a good view of the first half chances , especially in the early period and despite the opportunities looking promising the finishing was really crap — the kop seemed to feel that we were never going to score and it was a relief that Deano actually managed to put it in the net from 6 yards . |
| 5 | In a careful review of the first few years after reorganisation , a group of academics from the London School of Economics assessed the performance of the new London local authorities ( Rhodes 1972 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 7 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 8 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 9 | Do you remember that paradox of love , of the first few weeks and months of Passionate Love ( it 's capitalized , like the recipe , to begin with ) — the paradox about time ? |
| 10 | Much of the debate of the first few days concerned the use of Latin in the liturgy , but the debate itself of course took place in Latin . |
| 11 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 12 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 13 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |