Example sentences of "[is] the first [adj] study " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Stanton 's courageous book is the first comprehensive study of these monsters , revealing their history , how they work today and how , with better regulation , they might escape a repeat of the $500 billion savings-and-loan fiasco . |
| 2 | This book is the first comprehensive study of these gardens , and was reviewed in the RIBA Journal last month . |
| 3 | John Murray 's Patronage in Renaissance Italy from 1400 to the early Sixteenth Century by Mary Hollingsworth is the first comprehensive study of patrons in the Italian Quattrocento ( April , £19.99 ) . |
| 4 | But this is the first major study devoted to them , and the Chancery documents have provided useful supplementary material , including letters from performers and copies of contracts . |
| 5 | Peter Thornton 's book is the first serious study of this vast and sometimes elusive subject and the fourth in a series of thematically non-sequential books from Weidenfeld and Nicolson initiated by Mr Thornton with his richly informative Authentic Décor : The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 . |
| 6 | To our knowledge this is the first prospective study that has shown that bacterial pneumonia is associated with HIV seroconversion among intravenous drug misusers . |
| 7 | This is the first full study of the greatest period in the city 's history , which produced such painters as Melozzo and Palmezzano . |
| 8 | Kate Linker 's Vito Acconci is the first full-scale study of this contemporary artist ( £45 ) , while in association with the Gagosian Gallery in New York come Richard Diebenkorn : The Ocean Park Paintings by Jack Flam ( £16.95 ) , Ed Ruscha : The Word Paintings by Yves-Alain Bois ( £18.95 ) and Francesco Clemente : Evening Raga and Paradiso ( £19.95 ) with an introduction by Francesco Clemente , Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky . |
| 9 | Albert Boime 's The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento : Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy is the first extended study of the Macchiaioli in English ( £43.95 , $55 ) . |
| 10 | This is the first in-depth study of Charlie Rolls as a pioneer aviator . |
| 11 | This is the first reported study to show convincingly the presence of functional hyposplenism in patients with alcoholic liver disease . |
| 12 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 13 | The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice by Peter Humpfrey is the first detailed study in English of the Renaissance altarpiece and focuses on Venice from 1450–1530 . |