Example sentences of "of [pron] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1877 , to receive a little more income , the School accepted School Board Foundationers , of whom the first was John Dunville . |
| 2 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
| 3 | The Class 321 units ( of which the first was delivered in September 1988 ) , were an immediate success , but the same can not be said of the Class 442 ‘ Wessex Electrics ’ of which twenty-four five-car units should have been delivered in time for the May 1988 timetable . |
| 4 | A rare approach to library use from the reader 's point of view is Frank Hatt 's The reading process , of which the first two chapters are essential reading . |
| 5 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 6 | These radial coaches , of which the first was built in 1882 , were 42ft long over bodies , with a total wheel base of 32ft ; the end pair of wheels were 8ft centre to centre and 1 6ft between the centres of the middle wheels . |
| 7 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 8 | There are essentially two reasons , of which the first is the munificence of W. C. T. 's London cousins . |
| 9 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 10 | All of these activities meant that he could not get on with his new play , of which the first two scenes were already drafted and which he had planned , tentatively , to finish in time for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 . |
| 11 | Henry ( 1947–48 ) and ferris ( 1947 ) consider that the head comprises six segments , of which the first three give rise ti the labrum , the clypeus plus hypopharynx , and an oculo-antennal region broadly equivalent to the frons . |
| 12 | The radius ( R ) is typically 5-branched : its main stem is convex and divides into two , of which the first branch ( R1 ) passes directly to the wing-margin : the second branch or radial sector ( Rs ) is concave and divides into four veins ( R2 to R5 ) . |
| 13 | Three important matters remain , of which the first has to do with the things we discriminate within consciousness-the parts , segments , or passages of consciousness , as distinct from subject and contents . |
| 14 | Taking his cue from yet another of Austin 's philosophical essays , the famous and often reprinted ‘ A plea for excuses ’ , Goffmann distinguishes various forms of remedial ritual , of which the first is the so-called account . |
| 15 | Although the topics will be varied there will be two overall themes , of which the first is the study of boat shapes . |
| 16 | For the King 's Theatre he composed five Italian operas , of which the first , Orione ( 1763 ) , and the last , La Clemenza di Scipione ( 1778 ) , were perhaps the most successful , and an oratorio Gioas , Rè di Giuda ( 1770 ) . |
| 17 | It was now so cosmopolitan that Italian opera was composed by Handel , Hasse , Gluck ( until he defected to French opera , of which the first great master , Lully , had been a native of Italy ) , Haydn and , greatest of all , Mozart . |
| 18 | Item 5 is a weekly benefit , of which the first 14 days of any period of incapacity is excluded and benefit is payable for 104 weeks from the 15th day of incapacity . |
| 19 | On Oct. 18 , 1989 , the World Bank approved two loans totalling $89,000,000 , through its soft-loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) ; $45,000,000 represented the second tranche of an industrial sector adjustment credit , of which the first tranche of $62,000,000 had been released in 1988 . |
| 20 | Of this amount , SDR24,400,000 ( $32,200,000 ) would be available under the first annual arrangement , of which the first semiannual loan of SDR9,150,000 ( $12,100,000 ) was made available for disbursement on June 15 , 1990 . |
| 21 | The IMF announced on July 3 approval of a loan of SDR45,350,000 ( about US$60,000,000 ) in support of its third annual arrangement under the IMF 's enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) , of which the first SDR22,680,000 was immediately available . |
| 22 | The countries emerged with a five point plan of action , of which the first step is to " encourage the widest possible participation of Francophone countries in all international meetings on the environment " . |
| 23 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 24 | She had seen little of him the first two days . |
| 25 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 26 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 27 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 29 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 30 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |