Example sentences of "of [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 32 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 33 | Mr Lawrence 's appointment was one of the first major changes to hit the organisation after its new corporate identity was launched in 1986 . |
| 34 | Roberta M. Olson Ottocento : romanticism and revolution in nineteenth-century Italian painting ( The American Federation of Arts and Centro Di , New York and Florence , 1992 ) 293pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. $67.95 Catalogue of the first major exhibition on this topic to be seen by an American audience since 1949 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 22 , November 1992 , p.11 ) . |
| 35 | Ironically in view of their later slip down the headhunting league table , the firm of Boyden was responsible for one of the first major searches , a landmark in the history of executive search and a vital precursor of the work of the Big four . |
| 36 | At about the same time , i.e. the end of the nineteenth century , Charles Booth ( 1840–1916 ) was conducting one of the first major social surveys , which he published between 1891 and 1903 in seventeen volumes entitled Life and Labour of the People in London . |
| 37 | Public health had been one of the first major areas of government social intervention , beginning with the Public Health Act of 1848 . |
| 38 | However , responses to Newbolt were to become the focus of the first major ideological rift within the class-based cultural movement , a rift which was to undermine the strategy proposed in the Report and usher in an era in which English would be constituted in much more limited cultural terms . |
| 39 | It was the locale of a Community Development Project , part of the first major initiative by the central British State directed at inner urban problems . |
| 40 | A second hypothesis ( which corresponds closely to the timing of events ) is that the decision was taken in the wake of the first major attempt to restructure Cuban society : an Agrarian Reform Law , introduced on 17 May 1959 . |
| 41 | The ease of this initial approval of fields in science , where the subject culture was traditionally more sympathetic to modular course design ( including progressive assessment , behavioural objectives and all that goes with them ) , contrasted strongly with the validation experiences of the first major accretions to the Course in humanities , social sciences and teacher education . |
| 42 | One of the first major presentations of the results of the first phase of the initiative was to senior staff of the Children 's Division and the Social Services Inspectorate of the DHSS . |
| 43 | One of the first major investors under this new legislation was the German motor manufacturers Volkswagen which invested DM9,600 million ( US$5,690 million ) , and took an initial 25 per cent stake in Skoda , the Czechoslovak state-owned car manufacturer . |
| 44 | HK help : Around 120 regional industrialists yesterday heard how to maximise the opportunities open to business in Hong Kong following the award of the first major contract in the £10bn airport project . |
| 45 | Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh . |
| 46 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 47 | Oil group Lasmo was one of the first major companies to report full-year results . |
| 48 | The report warned that the international debt strategy could become " one of the first economic casualties " of the Gulf crisis . |
| 49 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 50 | One of the first genuine electrical recordings was Adeste Fideles sung in the Metropolitan Opera House New York by the choir of the Associated Glee Clubs of America ( 850 voices ) , before an audience of 4000 . |
| 51 | Nevertheless , in a conciliatory statement following the announcement of the first round results heralding the HDZ victory , Tudjman professed caution on the issue of Croatian separatism , suggesting that a HDZ government would be content with Croatian sovereignty and greater independence within a confederal Yugoslavia , and would respect Serb interests . |
| 52 | Ger McKenna 's Crestar , the fastest of the first round winners , features in heat two with Oaks winner Libertys Echo and Mabel Blair 's Blackwater Lady who has every chance of making further progress for the Larne trainer . |
| 53 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 54 | Third , analysis of the first bleeding episode was only done by Christensen , Cales , and Garcia Pagan . |
| 55 | According to Professor Morag Timbury of Glasgow Royal Infirmary ‘ acyclovir seems set to become one of the first effective anti-viral agents that can be given systemically in safety . ’ |
| 56 | Finally , the pharmacological basis of changes in blood pressure which lead to hypertension was uncovered in several research centres , including Oxford , and these investigations on experimental animals led to the use of hexamethonium compounds as one of the first effective treatments for hypertension . |
| 57 | This involves completion of the first meiotic division , followed by ovulation , fertilisation , and the resumption of the second meiotic division . |
| 58 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 59 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |
| 60 | A charity auction of the first limited edition Children In Need mug made at Alexandra — with the Pudsey logo and a Wedgwood limited edition mark — will also take place on the night . |