Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our newest granddaughter Rachel was christened on the first Sunday of the new year , and that was a wonderful happy day , with a party in her parents ’ home . |
| 2 | The Committee for Hereford Amateur Rafters is the organization that was formed following the first 100 mile race and , as such , is the backbone of UK rafting , acting as an administrative body providing information , advice and assistance to new teams as well as organizing the premier UK events . |
| 3 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 4 | The breadth of the audi alteram partem principle was limited in the first half of this century . |
| 5 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 6 | Edrophonium was given to the first 21 patients referred with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 7 | He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class . |
| 8 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 9 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
| 10 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 11 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 12 | In addressing this issue , Bentham foreshadowed , inter alia , both the work on orthodox organisation and management theory which was developed in the first three decades of this century ( Hume , 1981 p 6 ) and that on space planning which has followed ( Lipman et al , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | The early conceptualization of the instinct theory was developed before the First World War . |
| 14 | As was explained in the first chapter , it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go . |
| 15 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 16 | A not untypical pattern of distortion of sensation was reported from the first documented vigil of this sort : |
| 17 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 18 | Clearly , this will be related in some degree to the increase in the number of people owning and driving cars which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 19 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 20 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 21 | A night sitter was booked for the first night , with a home care aide to go in several times the following day . |
| 22 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 23 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 24 | But Jolosa was booked in the first half for kicking goalie Mark Davies . |
| 25 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 26 | Erm , just to remind you , or to draw to your attention , erm , ladies and gentlemen , the fact that the report erm , was considered in the first instance , by your community care advisory sub-committee in September , and subsequently by the joint consultative committee in November . |
| 27 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 28 | In the redrawn footnote to section 7(5) in Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 123rd ed. , the editors refer to this authority , but do not repeat the view which was contained in the first section of the footnote in the earlier editions . |
| 29 | The second was added to the first , over the cheek and lower jaw , to give a further stage of disintegration . |
| 30 | The Prix de l'Avenir — Marne la Vallée , worth F30,000 was won for the first time by kayak paddler Bernard Bregeon . |