Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 2 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 3 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 4 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 5 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 6 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 7 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 8 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 9 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 10 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 11 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 12 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 13 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 14 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 15 | German and Swiss lead managers were dominant between 1975 – 79 , but US houses became increasingly important during the 1980s , and by 1984 – 85 three US houses and the US/Swiss CSFB were included in the first five . |
| 16 | But while seven new licence sales were signed in the first half , this dropped to only two in the second due to currency turmoil , recession and political uncertainty in mainland Europe . |
| 17 | ‘ I had no regrets about missing the tour , ’ Cranmer explains , ‘ as both the centres were injured in the first two matches . |
| 18 | Scenes of disorder on a smaller scale were reported in the first two weeks of February in Laghout , Constantine , Tiaret , Medea ( where disturbances lasted six days ) , Bourj Menail , Mascara , various suburbs of Algiers and elsewhere . |
| 19 | So ‘ Rasta ’ , ‘ Rusty ’ and ‘ Camley ’ featured in the first Roman Candle Their adventures were related in the first person , so giving a ‘ hume ’ character to the otherwise mute and very much stuffed fluffy playthings . |
| 20 | Over 500 meals were served in the first two weeks and new activities launched . |
| 21 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 22 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 23 | Four separate military task forces were deployed in the first major military deployment of the Bush presidency , with the Pentagon keen to show that if the traditional threat in central Europe was declining , it was ready to project US power elsewhere in the globe . |
| 24 | One and a half million new accounts were opened in the first year . |
| 25 | Surprisingly few big names have gone under , which may prove what many long suspected : that their products were over-priced in the first place . |
| 26 | But five wins were recorded in the First XI League . |
| 27 | More than 2.7 million new houses were built in the first ten years of nationalisation , and 1954 , the peak year of Macmillan 's housing drive , saw 354000 completed . |
| 28 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 29 | Just over two hundred thousand vehicles were sold in the first six months of this year , a rise of thirteen per cent on the year before . |
| 30 | The six children were killed in the first of three road ambushes near the provincial capital which left 20 people dead since 2 March . |