Example sentences of "be in [art] first " in BNC.

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31 The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns .
32 Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it .
33 We may not be in the First Eleven , but we are a pretty strong team , Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Beerbohm , Chesterton and Haverford Downs .
34 ‘ I shall raffle you , to see who will be in the first half dozen . ’
35 You should , therefore , make every attempt to be in the first row , going fast as the gun goes and , ideally , with a space to leeward so that no-one is making you pinch .
36 It is not vital to be in the first row .
37 So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place .
38 In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones .
39 Sellars sadly does n't seem to be in the first team at Newcastle .
40 I do nt think anyone would argue that Strach should nt be in the first team .
41 The other bet says that horse will be in the first three .
42 Or if there are a lot of runners , that horse will be in the first four .
43 They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place .
44 Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain .
45 I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest .
46 If we turn the clock back to the beginning of the desktop publishing marketplace in order to trace its development and evolution we first need to establish exactly what desktop publishing was conceived as being in the first place .
47 Women with children were in the first buses .
48 In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree .
49 We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’
50 ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five .
51 ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division .
52 They were in the first place monotheists .
53 Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall .
54 The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed .
55 She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale .
56 This is how they were in the first few games of the season .
57 Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act .
58 We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 .
59 Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ?
60 Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they .
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