Example sentences of "it was [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board 's general counsel , Michael Friend , said afterwards : ‘ The finding was that he did change his scorecard at the qualifying round for the European Tour School last October , but the Board felt the sentence of 10 years was too severe given that it was a first offence . ’ |
| 2 | THERE can not and should not be any sympathy for Michael Watson , the mugger who was yesterday jailed for five years even though it was a first offence . |
| 3 | But because of her age and because it was a first offence , she was n't sent to a juvenile court . |
| 4 | For the 24 students on a new Performing Arts Course at the Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology , it was a first day they would never forget . |
| 5 | But it was a first run , and there were plenty of other inspirations . |
| 6 | For many of the pilgrims it was a first visit to seen the body of the Saint in the convent Chapel . |
| 7 | It was a first baby , and Marion Aluinn was narrower in the hip than the Campbell lass ; it was a long , hard labour in spite of the raspberry-leaf tea Lady Bridhe had brewed . |
| 8 | We said that it was a first step , not the last word . |
| 9 | Well to me it was a first time and being an unmarried man that I 'd earned anything like it . |
| 10 | Maybe it was because it was a first time and she was n't going to be a good mother , like some humans . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it was a first class talk , very well attended and well worth braving the rain and missing that fictional Victorian , Sherlock Holmes , on TV that night . |
| 12 | And I mean , we were told it was a first class area but there 's , if anybody walked into the building just now you would nah see it was a first class area to look at the state the building 's in ! |
| 13 | And I mean , we were told it was a first class area but there 's , if anybody walked into the building just now you would nah see it was a first class area to look at the state the building 's in ! |
| 14 | There was two thousand , we er you know was more than a union , it was it was a first class Friendly Society as well and it was friendly . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a first class performance by everyone involved . ’ |
| 16 | Although as I said , it was perhaps a mistake , erm , both classes produced excellent papers , that th it was a first class paper , in the other class and so was yours . |
| 17 | It was the first year the Group 's three NDT companies were represented together : . |
| 18 | It was fairly erm revolutionary at the time in in the fact it was really adopting a client server approach in network computing , and it was the first way to do that . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher 's dramatic and unexpected exit was even more remarkable because it was the first instance since Neville Chamberlain 's resignation in 1940 of a Prime Minister in good health and eager to continue being forced out of office other than after electoral defeat . |
| 20 | An auspicious day in cutter history as it was the first instance of the reigning monarch travelling by revenue cutter . |
| 21 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |
| 22 | It was the first event of its kind , and only possible now that traffic was beginning to move again after the restraints of the war . |
| 23 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 24 | It was the first case in which electrostatic depression analysis evidence had exposed police malpractice by analysis of the interview notes . |
| 25 | It was the first case for which the exact solution of Einstein 's equation was obtained , and this was done by Schwarzschild in 1916 . |
| 26 | It was the first part of a two-day sale in which all the lots found buyers . |
| 27 | It was the first audit as a public company , so it was relevant to meet the auditors but not exactly essential ! ’ |
| 28 | It was the first holiday since their short honeymoon in York so that Stephen , too , was eagerly anticipating the break from the routine of business . |
| 29 | It was the first softening Charles could ever remember hearing from Juliet . |
| 30 | It was the first FIS demonstration since the lifting of the state of siege in September . |