Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 2 | When AIDS was first identified in the USA , all those affected seemed to be gay or bisexual men . |
| 3 | Spitsbergen was first mentioned in the old Icelandic annals of the year 1194 , and was said to lie ‘ four days sailing from Langanes , at the northern end of the sea ’ They called it Svalbard , the ‘ cold coast ’ . |
| 4 | The ceiling was first introduced in the 1989 Budget , at the then figure of £60,000 , which as the Chancellor explained would be linked annually to the retail prices index . |
| 5 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 6 | In the event , the sterling balances were much less of a problem from London 's point of view than was commonly anticipated when the scale of their wartime accumulation was first discussed in the mid-1940s . |
| 7 | Programme budgeting was first recommended in the US by the Hoover Commission in 1949 ( Report to Congress on Budget and Accounting ) . |
| 8 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |
| 9 | This point was next considered in the case of Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd ( 1963 ) 2 All ER 575 . |
| 10 | This article was first published in the VORRSA Newsletter and is re-printed here by kind permission of the Editor . |
| 11 | Use of this schedule was first described in the Camberwell High Contact study ( Brewin et al. , 1988 ) when a variety of other instruments were employed including the PSE . |
| 12 | We have seen how the issue of race was first raised in the 1982 Metropolitan Police statistics which recorded the race of both victim and assailant in London . |
| 13 | The centre of the modern Unani hakims is still around Ballimaran , the Street of the Cat Killers , where the doctors moved when the area was first built in the late 1640s . |
| 14 | The collection was first housed in the Černín Palace at Hradčany , and later in the Clam-Martinic and Sternberg Palaces . |
| 15 | Corrugated shutters supposed to cover the unsightly skips in their cubby hole probably have n't been pulled down since the block was first occupied in the 1960s . |
| 16 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 17 | The octamer sequence was first recognized in the histone H2B gene and in the heavy and kappa light chain immunoglobulin genes and later identified as a regulatory sequence motif for many other cellular and viral genes ( reviewed in [ 1 ] ) . |
| 18 | There have been some important developments since the Bill was last debated in the House almost a year ago . |
| 19 | The GAB was last used in the mid-70s when both Britain and the United States were forced to seek international financial support to prop up their economies . |
| 20 | Gasification was first used in the US in 1873 to supplement coal and coke oven gas . |
| 21 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 22 | In the 1960s at Manchester University , where dental materials science was first established in the UK as an academic discipline , Dennis C. Smith developed the first adhesive dental cement , based on poly ( acrylic acid ) . |
| 23 | The line was first electrified in the 1950s , but at 1500 volts DC it is very different from today 's standard of 25000 volts AC . |
| 24 | It was with this in mind that when oil was first discovered in the North Sea , ICI set about joining a number of exploration consortia . |
| 25 | Apoptosis was first defined in the 1970s . |
| 26 | This feature was first introduced in the eighteenth century to let owls into the barn to catch vermin . |
| 27 | The new F7 unit was first employed in the Renault 19 16V launched in Britain in March 1991 . |
| 28 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 29 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
| 30 | Their story was first revealed in The Northern Echo earlier this year , but at the time the couple wanted to remain anonymous . |