Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 2 | The special needs of different categories of the physically handicapped were recognized first by individual philanthropists and this led to the establishment of numerous national and local voluntary organizations aiming to promote the welfare of the disabled . |
| 3 | Of particular importance for the residential sector was the fact that 75 per cent of the children admitted compulsorily were placed first in some form of residential care , with half of them in observation and assessment centres or in reception homes ( p. 162 ) . |
| 4 | This led to a further study where rt-PA or placebo were given first either outside the hospital or in the accident and emergency department of the hospital . |
| 5 | Though passages were booked for Macnab and Margaret Joyce , who were to go first while Joyce settled their affairs in London , the tickets were never used . |
| 6 | ‘ I should be a deal happier , ’ Mrs Tillotson protested , ‘ if the master were consulted first . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Scottish medieval churches were intended first and foremost as the setting for elaborate sung services , and without some appreciation of the music of those services any mental reconstruction of the church as it once was is incomplete , ’ says Richard Fawcett , Principle Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 8 | Baynton 's religious leanings were attested first in 1532 , in a friendly correspondence with Hugh Latimer [ q.v. ] , and finally in 1546 , when John Hooper [ q.v. ] mourned him as one of the ‘ chief upholders of the gospel ’ . |
| 9 | Lead and iron were superseded first by copper , which is more resistant to corrosion , and , more recently , by plastic . |
| 10 | The sophisticated systems of electro-chemical replacement and depletion gilding and silvering developed by Andean metallurgists during the first millennium before Christ were designed first and foremost as symbols of rank , power and religious force . |
| 11 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 12 | The effects of the economic burden which children imposed were felt first in the middle classes , for a variety of reasons , and led to significant family limitation in the late nineteenth century , as Banks 's ( 1954 ) classic study shows . |
| 13 | That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself . |
| 14 | A few local lines were built first , and then a larger company stepped in with a grand strategy to create a trunk route and compete for valuable traffic . |
| 15 | His drawings were sold first by Greenwood , auctioneer of Leicester Square , on 16 February 1787 and seven days following . |
| 16 | The collections were founded in 1885 and were housed first in the Rudolfinum . |
| 17 | We called him Boy because my elder sister and I were born first and his arrival gave great joy . |
| 18 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 19 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |
| 20 | Sales were focused first on the East Coats , then the West Coast and are now spreading to the Gulf of Mexico , pulling in new business — currently worth about £1 million a year — at a time when marine growth is static . |
| 21 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 22 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 23 | These differences were caused first by ice sheets and later by rivers . |
| 24 | Mr Kerswell explained firms were asked first and foremost to teach trainees a skill , not to expect them to be productive . |
| 25 | Studies of this kind were influenced first by studies and methods of denudation chronology , of which they naturally formed the later stages , and secondly by developments in the study of the Pleistocene where the work of Zeuner ( 1945 , 1958 ) and the work of geologists ( e.g. Wright , 1937 ; Flint , 1947 ; Charlesworth , 1957 ) had been particularly influential . |
| 26 | We were entertained first by a pair of talented young men playing two grand pianos . |
| 27 | They were taken first to the Royal East Sussex Hospital and then further a field . |
| 28 | The New Orleans sequences were filmed first , even before Fonda , Hopper and screenwriter Terry Southern had finished writing . |
| 29 | For when Chapman arrived in 1925 the Gunners were finding First Division survival a hard struggle . |
| 30 | Oh no they got no whisky but they got er Eversons be when the rocks were started first when the commissioners started the rocks first the Bell rock was the first . |