Example sentences of "and [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closing date is November 22 , and the first survey picked out of the bag after that date will win . |
| 2 | The force was virtually destroyed in its gallant endeavours at Mons and the First Battle of Ypres , with losses amounting to 95,654 by the end of 1914 . |
| 3 | He took part in the retreat from Mons and the first battle of Ypres . |
| 4 | Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid . |
| 5 | The earliest horseless carriages were regarded as socially dangerous and the first legislation to control them required that each should be accompanied by three persons — a driver , a passenger in case the driver was taken ill , and a third person walking in front carrying a red flag . |
| 6 | The commentators told people used to queuing for a bare minimum that the General-Secretary and the First Deputy Prime Minister had a choice of six different menus . |
| 7 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 8 | Edward Pyatt 's Guinness Book of Mountains and Mountaineering ( Guinness 1980 ) , gives lists of first ascents — mostly by Coolidge and Almer — and a poor location map , but no bibliography ; and Doug Scott 's classic Big Wall Climbing ( Daye Ward , 1974 ) tells only of the feats of Zsigimondy and Diboma on the traverse of La Meije and the first ascent of the South Face respectively . |
| 9 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 10 | We will call these descriptions noun , and the first type name . |
| 11 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 12 | You do n't take a water tablet tomorrow and then you start this Inavase stuff and the first dose should be taken at night because the main potential side effect with the very first tablet , and it 's the first tablet only , is your blood pressure can go Oh down a bit . |
| 13 | All patients received aspirin ( 162 mg daily ) and the first dose was chewed for rapid and full antithrombotic effect . |
| 14 | Last to putt , Treleaven sent his 14-footer into the cup to become the first Hampshire-born player to win the Salver and the first home county champion since Ian Gray in 1982 . |
| 15 | Although we think of it now as a packaging material and the ubiquitous polythene bag appears to be a major support of modern life , its primary contribution was in the impetus it gave to the plastic moulding industry and the first development of plastic buckets , sink bowls and so on . |
| 16 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 17 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 18 | and Mr. Mahmoud , and the first clause of that assignment is : |
| 19 | A man 's shout pierced the mist , and the first pursuer rushed out of the end of the alley and cut with his sword at the hatted shape which he saw dimly ahead of him . |
| 20 | ‘ Surely a squadron with Hughie Edwards , VC , DSO , DFC as commander and the first squadron to have Mosquitos has n't just faded away , ’ says Stan who was an ‘ erk ’ wireless operator at Marham from July 1942 to April , 1943 , and now lives at 46 Ingram Street , Springfield , Wigan . |
| 21 | GUINNESS IV , the final instalment of the Guinness fraud trial series which closed on Monday , was a virtual B-movie cult production compared to the original blockbuster and the first sequel . |
| 22 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 23 | " The cricket ground recently acquired by the Institute , is in fairly good order , and the first cricket match played thereon , took place on Sat . |
| 24 | Thus a process which started in early 1988 will see the first holder of an HNC in Accounting emerge in the summer of 1991 , and the first holder of an HND in Accounting in 1992 . |
| 25 | Page 25 Car sales down : Some 171,730 cars were sold in September , a 10 per cent decline on a year ago and the first fall since April 1987 . |
| 26 | Latest figures showed parish church councils netted £237,571 in 1990 down £1,000 in real terms on 1989 and the first fall for 14 years . |
| 27 | In the darkness before morning and the first shock of discovering that Fiver was gone , Bigwig had been a comfort and a stand-by . |
| 28 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 29 | If they do and the first tackle brings a pile-up , then you 've got the scrummage put-in deep in their half . |
| 30 | So it 's making it look like inverse proportion and the first thought is , Oh it l er er oh . |