Example sentences of "they [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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31 cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time .
32 ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’
33 ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’
34 By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time .
35 Oh yes , most of the lads here are really erm over the moon about it , it was a tough game , we erm outplayed them for the first probably three quarters of an hour really .
36 Eventually , Peter rid them of the first , hapless shop in San Francisco and , in 1981 , felt ready to open in New York .
37 ‘ If it was then Kevin would have killed them with the first bricks he threw and that would have been the end of the film . ’
38 This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development .
39 We rattled them from the first minute and did n't give them any breathing space .
40 Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first .
41 You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four
42 They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business .
43 Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place .
44 But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place .
45 There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance .
46 Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour .
47 This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place .
48 The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught .
49 The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli .
50 Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place .
51 He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed .
52 They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place .
53 As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require .
54 Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop .
55 The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly .
56 What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place .
57 It was proposed that the trainee nurses would be accommodated in the main building of the institution and the committee recommended a scheme for ten probationers , five of them in the first year .
58 A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes .
59 The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government .
60 In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate .
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