Example sentences of "in [art] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parrott is lively too , but the performances are gentler , and his often slower speeds-as in the first chorus of the Birthday Ode with its call to ‘ Celebrate this triumphant day'-bring out the dancing rhythms less infectiously . |
| 2 | On the DEC PDP-10 computer , subroutine call instructions are provided for saving the return address either in the first location of a subroutine or in an accumulator ; but it also has call and return instructions which treat a specified area of store as a return address stack , in a manner similar to that described earlier in this section . |
| 3 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 4 | MARTIN DUGARD rode unbeaten on his home track as England outclassed Australia 73–35 in the first Test at Oxford last night . |
| 5 | Had it finished the day after the Irish rattled the All Blacks in the First Test at Carisbrook then Murphy would have taken his men home in high humour . |
| 6 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 7 | HEAVY rains gave way long enough for New Zealand to declare at 325–3 yesterday in the first Test at against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo . |
| 8 | And if yesterday 's result is followed by defeat in the first Test at Old Trafford , the clamour for change at the top will reach a crescendo . |
| 9 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 10 | Few excuses can be offered for the England batsmen 's failure to pile up runs both here and in the first Test at Calcutta , where they were beaten by eight wickets . |
| 11 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 12 | Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness . |
| 13 | Scores of one and 25 in the first Test at Calcutta were in line with his dismal average of 17 , but in the first innings of the second Test in Madras , he at last showed signs of mastering the Indian spinners . |
| 14 | In 1980–1 , in the first Test to be played on his home ground in Antigua , there was never any doubt that he was going to mark the occasion with a century , and , as we shall see , when England returned five years later he marked that occasion in the most spectacular fashion . |
| 15 | He toured Namibia with Ireland two seasons ago , coming on in the First Test as a replacement for Simon Geoghegan . |
| 16 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 17 | WEST INDIAN umpire Steve Bucknor stepped in to prevent crowd trouble getting out of hand as India ground their way to a 23-run first innings lead in the first Test against South Africa here yesterday . |
| 18 | THE British Lions were today fuming over two refereeing decisions which they claimed cost them victory in the first Test against New Zealand in Christchurch . |
| 19 | OPENER Rod Latham completed his maiden Test century as New Zealand consolidated their strong position in the first Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo today . |
| 20 | OPENER Kevin Arnott 's maiden Test century helped Zimbabwe fight their way to a draw in the first Test against New Zealand in Bulawayo yesterday . |
| 21 | He took only two wickets in the first Test after leapfrogging Essex man Mark Ilott when Alan Igglesden pulled out injured , but had two catches dropped by Graeme Hick , including Mark Taylor early in his match-winning innings . |
| 22 | Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper . |
| 23 | Smith , opening the innings , made 74 from only 53 deliveries in the first hour of the day , striking two sixes and 13 fours , before retiring to give someone else some practice . |
| 24 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 25 | Such infusion of caerulein in chronic pancreatic fistula rats caused a marked increase in protein output from basal secretion of 10 mg/30 minutes to 40 mg/30 minutes in the first hour of infusion followed by a decline in protein output to 15–20 mg/30 minutes in the following hours of the experiment . |
| 26 | Normally half of this ‘ extra ’ height is lost in the first hour after waking but , if exercise is taken on waking , then the loss of height is more rapid . |
| 27 | In the first hour after finding her dress and necklace he might have been prepared to accept a rational explanation — or even a bemused denial of involvement . |
| 28 | He has worked widely since then in theatre and television , playing Romeo at the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich , Sebastian in Twelfth Night and a leading part in the first revival since the eighteenth century of Sir Courtly Nice , performed at the Young Vic in London and the Swan Theatre in Stratford . |
| 29 | Tranmere wasted a good deal of splendid midfield work in the first half with long-range speculative shots into the stand . |
| 30 | Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval . |