Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] first [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contest between the two candidates was first fought out before cardinals Gaucelin and Luke in England , but in 1318 the case was revoked to the Roman curia at Avignon , where Hamo was himself constrained to go in early 1319 . |
| 2 | In the two decades since research was first carried out ( 1963-1965 ) , Ghana has experienced radical socio-economic change , including oscillation between military and civilian rule in a series of coups d'etat c , gross inflation , and decay of the network of transport , communication and postal services . |
| 3 | This area of study was first opened up by Professor Kurt Lewin in the United States in the mid 1940 's with the use of so-called ‘ T-groups ’ as a device for the study of inter-personal relations within groups . |
| 4 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 5 | Lifelong friend Stan Cardwell said that when youth hostels were first set up in 1930s , Mr Lear helped form a Darlington branch and often used the hostels in his cross country expeditions . |
| 6 | Such an alliance was unacceptable to a number of DYP deputies and to the SHP ; the RP had said that it would co-operate only if an Islamic leader was first agreed on to replace Özal . |
| 7 | Global differences in CBF were first covaried out , and comparisons of the means were made using the t statistic . |
| 8 | Cocoa powder for making an instant drink was first marketed in about 1830 . |
| 9 | It is easy to ‘ feed ’ a black hole in the early days of the Universe , when galaxies were first forming out of gas . |
| 10 | When the Soviets were first set up , richer peasants had become chairmen , but soon and throughout the period of War Communism poor peasants had replaced them . |
| 11 | Bill Beeby , of Boeing Aircraft Co in the United States , in his description of their search for an integrated manufacturing system , claims that they were nearest that goal when the firm was first set up to make sports planes for their wealthy owner . |
| 12 | The response of the security forces was first to bring in police . |
| 13 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 14 | Such a relation was first pointed out by Kinnersley ( 1975 ) , and by Fisher ( 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 16 | Pricing criteria were first laid down in detail in the 1967 ( second ) White Paper — prices should be related to ( long-run ) marginal costs , without arbitrary cross-subsidization , but should be sufficient to cover full accounting costs including the opportunity cost of capital . |
| 17 | In 1984 , when the InterCity Charter Unit was first set up , it had at its disposal some twenty sets of Mk 1 stock — principally second-class tourist open vehicles — but nothing which could credibly be described as suitable for the VIP trains it was seeking to introduce . |
| 18 | Armstrong was first to take up the cudgels at the end of last season , and a little piece of bantering brought in Harrison . |
| 19 | De-horning was first carried out , largely successfully , in semi-desert areas of Namibia in 1990 , and Zimbabwe embarked on the practice with some of its white rhinos in 1991 . |
| 20 | This accorded with information given to the court when the appeal was first set down . |
| 21 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 22 | The social care programme at Thomas Danby College in Leeds was first set up in 1978 . |