Example sentences of "for [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 2 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 3 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 4 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 5 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 6 | Squadron Leader Christopher Tingay , from R-A-F Lyneham , has been awarded the Air Force Cross for piloting the first relief flights into Sarajevo . |
| 7 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 8 | Langdon believed Kim Ku was the most obvious candidate for leading the first independent government . |
| 9 | The second great invention for supporting the first invention is finding how to relate the invention itself to the public . |
| 10 | Chapter 29 of that work is remarkable for containing the first scientific investigation of the tides , involving the earliest ‘ establishment of a port ’ , that is , the mean interval between the time of high water and that of the previous transit of the meridian by the moon . |
| 11 | The plate is now ready for taking a first print , that is , for proofing . |
| 12 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 13 | er position two is always for tur for taking the first turning off the |
| 14 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 15 | Last season , Leeds received £100,000 from sponsors Barclays for winning the First Division . |
| 16 | I mean that 's one reason why I 'm setting Monday Monday week as the date final date for making the first return . |
| 17 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |
| 18 | His discussions of what was ‘ acceptable damage ’ in return for striking the first blow was ‘ somewhere between ten and sixty million dead . |