Example sentences of "by [verb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 2 | They made allowance for a stale price effect in the index ( by including a first order moving average process ) , and used a GARCH ( 1,1 ) model to control for autocorrelation in the variance of the disturbances . |
| 3 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 4 | Heavily loaded brushes precisely placed always leave behind smooth , compacted paint , so here I maintained the ‘ breathable ’ quality by allowing the first layer of blue to dry , before applying another slightly different hue in the same way |
| 5 | Style mogul Simon Forbes from Antenna made history in October by becoming the first hairdresser to appear on the Wogan show . |
| 6 | A TEACHER made legal history yesterday by becoming the first person to win damages for so-called yuppie flu . |
| 7 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S David Frost yesterday made history by becoming the first golfer to win the Million Dollar Challenge three times . |
| 8 | Middlesboro 1 , Watford 2 WATFORD enhanced their impressive away record by becoming the first team to win at Middlesbrough 's Ayresome Park in the League this season , writes Ian Whittell . |
| 9 | He also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to compile three total clearances in a match . |
| 10 | Last month at York , Dayflower , trained by Satish Seemar , made history by becoming the first horse trained in Dubai to win a race in Britain . |
| 11 | A female deacon has made history by becoming the first woman to be put in charge of a parish in the Gloucester Diocese . |
| 12 | As the Fifties ended he was on the point of multiplying millions by opening the first Playboy Club , in Chicago , where the girls , not the customers , were dressed as rabbits . |
| 13 | But by announcing the first tranche of purchases , it has now signalled its intention to press ahead , rekindling the fury of the country 's 4,300 mostly white commercial farmers . |
| 14 | Pliant editors were rewarded with knighthoods , and the Sun 's owner , Rupert Murdoch , was granted a licence to strike at the BBC by establishing the first satellite station , Sky TV . |
| 15 | He was provisionally enrolled at Oriel College , Oxford , and it was not until 21 July 1759 that he was able to celebrate his acceptance by writing the first line of the diary : ‘ Made a Scholar of New-College ’ . |
| 16 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 17 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 18 | This indicates that chewing and swallowing at least start to bring our bodily eating controls into action by sending the first satiety signals to the brain — and that the more chewing and swallowing we do the more effective this is likely to be . |
| 19 | The 1992 Richmond Meet is being marked as a historic occasion by having the first female Meet president . |
| 20 | That the two objectives are interdependent can be demonstrated by examining the first objective . |
| 21 | We 'll also indicate the beginning of each paragraph by indenting the first line , except where that paragraph is the first of a section . |
| 22 | The Wright Brothers , in 1903 , were able to demonstrate the possibility of flight by achieving the first flight of just thirty-six metres . |
| 23 | Taking a random page from the writings of Karl Popper , one can see the structure of the discourse in skeleton form by taking the first phrase or sentence of each paragraph . |
| 24 | Otto Becker , a member of Germany 's silver medal team in the 1990 World Championships , proved his two World Cup horses are in top form by winning the first warm-up on Leandra , and then going clear , though with no pressure , on Landmann in the speed class . |
| 25 | Bradley Bone has started well for the 1993 season by winning the first club match with a good bag of eels for 9lb 8oz . |
| 26 | the interest earned by reinvesting the first coupon payment at the rate rb for half a year , . |
| 27 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 28 | Thus scheme six , for instance , might be altered by making the first instalment payable on the 22nd day after the loan and taking 7d per pound for interest . |
| 29 | Across at the County Ground , the Swindon commander , Glenn Hoddle led his team from the front by making the first goal against Southend . |
| 30 | This study is related to Professor Rosenbrock 's SERC Senior Fellowship award ‘ Social Effects of Automation ’ and is to develop software which will enable the operator to program an FMS system by making the first batch of parts . |