Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 6 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 9 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 10 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 11 | ‘ I had no regrets about missing the tour , ’ Cranmer explains , ‘ as both the centres were injured in the first two matches . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Over 500 meals were served in the first two weeks and new activities launched . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One and a half million new accounts were opened in the first year . |
| 18 | Surprisingly few big names have gone under , which may prove what many long suspected : that their products were over-priced in the first place . |
| 19 | But five wins were recorded in the First XI League . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The six children were killed in the first of three road ambushes near the provincial capital which left 20 people dead since 2 March . |
| 24 | Six new Homebase stores were opened in the first half with a further new store and distribution depot to opened in the current six months . |
| 25 | Appointments to the Cabinet to replace other departing ministers were announced in the first week of January . |
| 26 | About 12,000 sorties were flown in the first week — about half of them bombing raids , the rest involving air refuelling , reconnaissance , fighter cover and the like . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , despite poor resistance to water penetration and poor durability , 30,000 pairs of the new boots were sold in the first 12 months . |
| 28 | this polarisation of the country and its potential political consequences was recognised by the Conservative Government almost certainly well before the results of the 1987 general election were known … the development of policies to tackle the economic run-down and social deprivation of inner city areas was identified as a major thrust for the new government and many new initiatives were conceived in the first weeks of the new Parliament . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State must be aware that 125,000 jobs were lost in the first 10 weeks of 1992 . |
| 30 | Seventy thousand retail jobs were axed in the first three months of this year . |