Example sentences of "were first [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to ‘ feed ’ a black hole in the early days of the Universe , when galaxies were first forming out of gas . |
| 2 | ‘ The Myrcans , when they were first created out of Dwarf-hewn and Giant-riven stone , took up residence in the broad Dale of Glen-arric , and in time that place became known as Merkadale , as it still is called today . |
| 3 | These private verses were first collected up in the Nonesuch Collected Papers vol. 2 ( see MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ) . |
| 4 | It is only now , decades after they were first written down , that the reading public can begin to have any sense of the extent and range of Tolkien 's mythological writings . |
| 5 | These were first written down in draft form , then refined on input to the database . |
| 6 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 7 | Global differences in CBF were first covaried out , and comparisons of the means were made using the t statistic . |
| 8 | These same qualities are needed by lecturers , so it is no surprise that some excellent critical writings , such as many of John Ruskin 's books , were first read out from a lectern . |
| 9 | Some of these byroads have developed a heavier traffic since they were first laid out , and in these instances it has been an easy matter to take in more of the verges and to widen the road surface . |
| 10 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sales have rocketed by 213 per cent since they were first brought out by Lynx in 1985 . |
| 13 | When the rods ( stems ) were first taken down they were scraped and painted with sulphur mixed with paraffin and soft soap . |
| 14 | But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up . |
| 15 | Microsoft claims to have shipped more than 10,000 NT developers ' kit in the month since they were first put out . |
| 16 | er , I , I ca n't say that they became inaccurate , they may well have been entirely accurate for the whole of the period from when they were first produced through to September nineteen eighty six |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is a traditional picture of the genesis of BT whose main lines depend , substantially , not on any direct evidence , but on the later recollections of Nietzsche 's sister , which were first set out in one volume of a biography of her brother published in 1897 . |