Example sentences of "in [art] first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first signs of protest since the events of June , students from the Beijing Aeronautical Institute held a demonstration in violation of martial law on Dec. 9 , criticizing China 's economic performance and media censorship . |
| 2 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 3 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 4 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 5 | Lendl 's 6–2 7–6 second-round defeat to Black , after a first round bye , was the latest blow to the 33-year-old 's faltering career , having lost in the first rounds of the French and Australian Opens already this year . |
| 6 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 7 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 8 | In the first incidents in Zagreb seven soldiers were killed on July 2 . |
| 9 | I was thus thrilled to read , in the first chapters of Richard Brennan 's book , an argued attack on the cult beliefs , unproven theories , ignorant superstitions and mumbo-jumbo pseudoscience that so many people now prefer to the hard work involved in becoming technologically literate . |
| 10 | In some words , we can observe a type of stress that is weaker than primary stress but stronger than that of the first syllable of ‘ around ’ , for example in the first syllables of the words ‘ photographic ’ , ‘ anthropology ’ . |
| 11 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 12 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 13 | Building materials were scarce and expensive in the first decades of the nineteenth century , and stucco could cover a multitude of sins , including poor stone or brickwork . |
| 14 | In the first decades of the century Lonsdale notes that there were a number of poets , such as Lady Mary Chudleigh , Octavia Walsh , Elizabeth Tollet , and Mehetabel Wright , who worked very much in isolation ; these are not , however , entirely representative since the Restoration ‘ … brought a new confidence and competence to women 's verse … ’ |
| 15 | In the first decades of occupation it was now evident that far too much effort had been concentrated on the stabilization of the Province in purely military terms and too little attention paid to the feelings and aspirations of the Britons , except through the few carefully selected agents , and there had been a tacit acceptance that the rest would come to accept Rome . |
| 16 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 17 | In the first decades of the twentieth century sex education took on great importance within public debate . |
| 18 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 21 | Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions . |
| 22 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 23 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 24 | The role of management in the first stages of a band 's career should not be underestimated . |
| 25 | Was the speaker trying to tell me something or was I in the first stages of paranoia ? |
| 26 | Head-injured patients , especially , can be aggressive in the first stages of their recovery . |
| 27 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 28 | In the first stages of the war production rose , but as the war dragged on it declined rapidly . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 30 | The behaviour referred to here is that required in the first stages of an encounter with any new material . |