Example sentences of "first [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maris Otter was first listed as an approved variety by the Barley Committee of the Institute of Brewing 26 years ago and is still used by brewers such as Youngs , Brakspear and Eldridge Pope . |
| 2 | His right to sit was first referred to a select committee of the House of Commons which reported , somewhat unhelpfully , that there were arguments for and against his right to sit , and recommended clarifying legislation which , however , has not been forthcoming . |
| 3 | The cycle track was first formed with a 100mm thick compacted layer of old railway ballast , surfaced with a 25mm thick layer of fine crushed whin stone . |
| 4 | The cycle track was first formed with a 100mm thick compacted layer of old railway ballast , surfaced with a 25mm thick layer of fine crushed whin stone . |
| 5 | The message , which apparently tempered earlier calls for a more radical approach to the Baltic republics was , however , received differently by Ukrainian leaders who highlighted the significance of Bush 's visit , the first undertaken by a US leader on a state visit . |
| 6 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 7 | As a result , the ‘ inner city problem ’ has changed somewhat in character since it was first recognized as a major political issue in the mid 1970s . |
| 8 | When proposals for reorganisation were first mooted by a Labour government in 1968 , the future structure of local government was also being considered by the Redcliffe-Maud Commission ( 1969 ) . |
| 9 | And throughout it all the music , first heard as an eerie sketch inside the hero 's head , skeletally indistinct and bone china fragile . |
| 10 | Caspar Weinberger , the secretary of defence — a small , determined , beaky man , best-known for cutting any budget but his own — first heard of a possible Iranian operation on June 18th , 1985 . |
| 11 | Three Emperors had been murdered ( one was , in addition , first blinded with a hot needle ) ; the mother of one ruler was strangled and the father of another forced off a precipice on his elephant . |
| 12 | Sweating remained , child labour survived , and reformers could still find terrible poverty to expose , but improving conditions meant rising expectations , even though these were at first limited to a few . |
| 13 | Don has played second fiddle to Damien McCusker for some time now and his county pedigree stretches back to 1983 when he was first honoured as a Minor . |
| 14 | For the English-speaking nations , this concept was first realised on a substantial scale in what is now known as The Oxford English Dictionary , ( originally entitled A New English dictionary on Historical Principles ) . |
| 15 | His interest was first aroused as an academic member of a community whose ancestors organised the Boston Tea Party . |
| 16 | Speaking without notes , Mr Denton gave us a clear picture of the way the railways were first developed as a freight service , and indeed their rapid rise as a people carrier was an unexpected consequence . |
| 17 | This acceptance of the usual forms of court etiquette was first developed in a particular social environment , and it is important to comply with it if a proper atmosphere is to be established for the action which is to take place . |
| 18 | Zimbabwean conservationists have successfully completed a programme of rhino de-horning , a technique first developed in an effort to reduce rhino poaching in neighbouring Namibia . |
| 19 | Chandrasekhar had shown that the exclusion principle could not halt the collapse of a star more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit , but the problem of understanding what would happen to such a star , according to general relativity , was first solved by a young American , Robert Oppenheimer , in 1939 . |
| 20 | The couple , who met only seven months ago , first wed in a hush-hush civil ceremony in Los Angeles in April with just a few friends as witnesses . |
| 21 | One night at a Sandinista party high on the mountains outside of Jinotega , I found out the advise had first come from a certain political adviser with offices in Old Compton Street , London . |
| 22 | The letter goes some way to explaining the 14 months delay between June 1981 , when harmful side-effects from Opren were first reported to an international conference , and August 1982 when the drug was withdrawn . |
| 23 | Donald Griffin tells a story of what happened when he and his colleague Robert Galambos first reported to an astonished conference of zoologists in 1940 their new discovery of the facts of bat echolocation . |
| 24 | THE European Commission on Wednesday approved an EC loan of one billion Ecus ( £800 million ) to help Hungary overcome severe balance of payments problems , the first organised for a non-EC country . |
| 25 | THE European Commission on Wednesday approved an EC loan of one billion Ecus ( £800 million ) to help Hungary overcome severe balance of payments problems , the first organised for a non-EC country . |
| 26 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 27 | For instance , coffee sponge can be made by adding a tablespoon of coffee ( first dissolved in a little hot water ) , or add 1 tablespoon lemon juice for a moist lemony cake . |
| 28 | To make chocolate buttercream , add 15g ( ½oz ) cocoa powder to the mixture , and for a coffee flavour add 5ml ( 1tsp ) coffee — either first dissolved in a little water or the ‘ Camp ’ variety . |
| 29 | The present unsatisfactory state of the law relating to VAT could mean that VAT paid by the tenant may not be recoverable , and therefore the tenant should consider amending such a provision to provide that it will only pay VAT on such sums where it is first presented with a valid VAT invoice in the tenant 's name . |
| 30 | Alan Cooksey , deputy chief inspecting officer of railways , told a fatal accident inquiry in Glasgow that when he was first presented with a ‘ thumbnail sketch ’ of the proposed lay-out he had seen no reason to delay it . |