Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 2 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 5 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I had no regrets about missing the tour , ’ Cranmer explains , ‘ as both the centres were injured in the first two matches . |
| 11 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 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 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 14 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 17 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 18 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 19 | The first one is the existing arrangements on nursing home care , really reviewing the process , and members will recognize that the arrangements that were agreed in the first agreement with Health Authority related to gaining permission from the Health Authority before our placing nursing homes . |
| 20 | One and a half million new accounts were opened in the first year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Three hundred were sold in the first two days . |
| 25 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | A parliamentary campaign has been launched to officially pardon hundreds of British soldiers who were executed in the First World War for desertion and cowardice . |
| 28 | A bill to grant posthumous pardons to all three hundred and seven British soldiers who were executed in the first world war , has gained a formal first reading in the house of commons . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |