Example sentences of "of [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Managing Director of P&O European Ferries ( Portsmouth ) , Richard Martin , said : ‘ Sponsorship is often one of the first areas to be threatened during times of economic hardship . |
| 32 | And it would n't have been until the development of the first cities that streetwalkers really started to come into their own 11,000 — 12,000 years later . |
| 33 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 34 | One of the first cities to set up an Architectural Department in 1938 , an exhibition in May-June 1939 illustrated plans for a redesigned civic centre , with lectures by such well known authorities on town planning as Thomas Sharp , author of Oxford Re-planned , and Clough Williams-Ellis , builder of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in Snowdonia . |
| 35 | One of the first visitors today was the Princess Royal in her role as president of the Royal Yachting Association.Tony Maycock reports |
| 36 | One of the first actions of the new department was to begin consultations about local government reorganisation . |
| 37 | With letter I enclose clippings from the Gwelo and Que Que newspapers , telling of the first actions of the Mobile Force . |
| 38 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 39 | Its appeal is obvious when shown to anyone in the target age group of ages 3 to 6 , and this should be one of the first programs a young user should see on a PC . |
| 40 | They were the raised arms of the first shamans ; the broken horns of the first stag ; the broken memory of the fiercest winter . |
| 41 | As farmers are forced to look for ways to diversify , ostrich farming is tipped as being one of the growth areas , and Vince Tyack was one of the first farmers to take up the initiative . |
| 42 | Together both the Officials took only twenty-two per cent of the first preferences . |
| 43 | Susan , Anne 's daughter by Didier , became one of the first geniuses of the form , moulding her night fantasies into unforgettably affecting tapestries of emotion and narrative . |
| 44 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 45 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 46 | Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . |
| 47 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 48 | He was also one of the first members of the British Deaf Association when that was formed in 1890 . |
| 49 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 50 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 51 | Building a tractor from scratch is largely a process of jumping endless technical hurdles , and one of the first problems was fitting the clutch . |
| 52 | One of the first problems faced by the Republic was that most of the colonies outside New England were loyal to the Stuart monarchs , and so in the early 1650s considerable effort had to be put into making them accept the new government . |
| 53 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 54 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 55 | One of the first physicians to recognize the parlous state of medical education and the practice of physic , he was persuaded in 1804 by the Lincolnshire Medical Benevolent Society ( which he had founded ) to investigate medical practice in Britain . |
| 56 | Their call for a reconsideration of Negro origins reinforces a claim late last year by two South African scientists that southern Africa not West Africa was the home of the first Negroes ( New Scientist , 13 January , p 90 ) . |
| 57 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 58 | He was one of the first sculptors in England to sign his work , and he had a thriving practice , several families , among them the Shireburns of Mitton , Lancashire , and the Brownlows of Belton , commissioning him more than once . |
| 59 | One of the first sets includes four baby designs for Chunky knitting . |
| 60 | Although both ‘ Bomber ’ Smith and the engineers hoped that in time they would be able to bring construction times down nearer to three years ( from the beginning of work on site to the commissioning of the first sets ) , the time actually taken was typically five or more years . |