Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first decision had been only to take on older parts . |
| 2 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 3 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 4 | Although the first hurdle had been passed , she was still anxious for him to go . |
| 5 | The common clinical experience of diagnosing two ( or occasionally more ) affected boys simultaneously in a single family has to be weighed against the availability of prenatal diagnosis in future pregnancies once the first case has been identified . |
| 6 | The first case has been recorded in Britain of a suicide attempt foiled by a catalytic converter . |
| 7 | That first contract had been for America , and then came Russia , France , Italy , Germany , South America , the list is endless . |
| 8 | At Windscale , a MOX Demonstration Facility for manufacturing thermal MOX fuel for pressurised water reactors was completed in January and the first contract has been secured from the Swiss utility NOK . |
| 9 | My first assessment had been the right one . |
| 10 | The House of Lords , agreeing with the Court of Appeal , held that the judge at first instance had been wrong in his interpretation . |
| 11 | The Court of First Instance has been created to deal with the increased number of appeals to the European Court of justice from decisions taken by the Commission in the field of competition and a limited number of other areas , and in particular staff disputes within the Community Institutions . |
| 12 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 13 | The Aussie trio is led by newly-signed Steve Regeling who has moved from Exeter with Dave Cheshire , who spent most of last season recovering from a bad wrist injury , and Mark Lemon whose plans to move into the first division have been put on ice . |
| 14 | It promises to be the toughest league year yet for rugby union … the first division has been changed so that teams play each other at home and away … which means more games |
| 15 | The first course had been awaiting them on the dining-room table . |
| 16 | The first part had been held in Vina del Mar , Chile , at the end of 1990 [ see p. 37931 ] . |
| 17 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 18 | Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled . |
| 19 | British viewers already have one answer available to them : the first episode has been released here on video by Warners , with a strange , abrupt ending tacked on to offer one solution to the mystery . |
| 20 | The magnitude of Reagan 's achievement in his first term has been subject to question on several grounds . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 22 | But suppose there was something that could only be depressed after the first piece had been pulled into the right position ? |
| 23 | The first piece has been countered , in the Independent on Sunday , by a defensive piece written by Salman Rushdie , one of the selectors of the list , and a rather world-weary essay in the Observer by Andrew Motion . |
| 24 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 25 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 26 | The second session of the Sino-Nepalese joint boundary inspection committee was held in Kathmandu on Aug. 1-7 , 1988 ( the first session having been held in February 1987 ) . |
| 27 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 28 | ‘ The first half had been fantastic , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 30 | The first dimension has been labelled warmth-coldness , and is based on , for instance , the affection the mother shows the child , the extent to which she is demonstratively playful , her acceptance of the child 's dependency , and her use of reasoning in disciplining him . |