Example sentences of "[noun] first [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socata 's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left , concluding it could never match such performance . |
| 2 | When Bathsheba first appeared at the weekly Casterbridge market , where farmers bought and sold their wheat and animals , she caused a sensation . |
| 3 | Newton first arrived at the inverse square law of attraction by considering the elliptical motion of a point planet around a stationary point sun . |
| 4 | Wintering birds first appear at the coast in August and September , and most have left by early April . |
| 5 | Erin kicked Khaur over to where he 'd been told to sit when the pilot first landed at the burrow to ferry them back to headquarters . |
| 6 | By May 12 the Bombay stock exchange index had fallen by 1,047 points or almost 24 per cent of the market 's capitalization since the scandal first emerged at the end of April . |
| 7 | Oswald first appeared at the Midland Railway Centre in August and was an immense success . |
| 8 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 9 | Bewick Swans first overwintered at the Wildfowl and Wetlands trust 45 years ago , and nowadays around three hundred return every year . |
| 10 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini brought over a pair of tractors for the Royal show with its extraordinary Global Monitor video system first seen at the Italian Bologna show . |
| 11 | National park officer , Alan Jones , said the memorial fund will be used to maintain Cader Idris , the mountain which Dr Hughes first climbed at the age of four . |
| 12 | Whereas the long-term significance of human activity upon plants and animals and soil characteristics and distributions has provided one research focus , in climatology the emphasis has perhaps been more evident on a spatial scale with the impact of human activity first appreciated at the local scale but then subsequently extended to the meso and thence to the world scale . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) Where co-owners of an estate or interest in any land , … not being itself partnership property , are partners as to profits made by the use of that land or estate , and purchase other land or estate out of the profits to be used in like manner , the land or estate so purchased belongs to them , in the absence of an agreement to the contrary , not as partners but as co-owners for the same respective estates and interests as are held by them in the land or estate first mentioned at the date of the purchase . |
| 14 | Since Evans first dug at the site in 1900 archaeological work has largely concentrated on revealing the remains of the palace of King Minos and other buildings of the extraordinary Minoan civilisation . |