Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 2 | This programme has been through the first round of application approvals which saw the Regional Council gain around £17,000 to capital and around £600,000 to revenue . |
| 3 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 4 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 5 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 6 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 7 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 8 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 9 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 10 | The figures that I read out are for the first year . |
| 11 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 12 | Truman indicated late in 1945 that the United States would not be a passive bystander in the Middle and Near East as it had been after the First World War . |
| 13 | The first law permits us to unnest IFs , so that all arguments are of the first type . |
| 14 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 15 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 16 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
| 17 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 18 | We do n't know whether they 're on , they 're on the first , second or third ? |
| 19 | However , they will be drawn from the same list of topics that 're on the first and there may be some overlap . |
| 20 | Edible plants that stained the skin while being prepared for eating , or being eaten , such as blackberries , would have been amongst the first to be tried for dyeing ; gradually the range of colours available from plants increased by using combinations of dyes to take in every shade possible . |
| 21 | It is to be hoped that this satisfactory industrial position will be maintained after the War , for , unfortunately , in the past the deaf and dumb have always been amongst the first to be pushed to the wall in periods of depression . |
| 22 | Leftwich seems to have been amongst the first to realize that the widespread use of ice for preserving food would be both highly beneficial and immensely profitable . |
| 23 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 24 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 25 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 26 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 27 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 28 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
| 29 | A year ago Dorothy had been in the first , ominous stages of her illness , furiously denying that anything could be wrong , her normal ill temper exacerbated by discomfort and increasing disability . |
| 30 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |