1.   By trimming down the first act, they kept the pace going, and the second act benefited.

2.   He was on stage for most of the first act.

3.   His first public act was to preach in the biggest white church in this segregated city.

4.   I arrived at the theatre late and missed the first act.

5.   Saying the shahada is the first act through which you become a Muslim.

6.   The first act in the talent show is the Great Gregorini, a magician.

7.   In the first act, two characters are talking in a restaurant.

8.   My very first act -- since one has to begin somewhere -- was to decide upon the form in which I would report to you.

9.   In his first act as a father, Vitor had arranged for his labourers to build a sandpit at the edge of the terrace and opposite her workshop.

10.   Every day, almost my first act is to glance at the hills near my home.