Example sentences of "[noun] was first [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
| 2 | Rey 's own music was first heard at the Concert Spirituel in 1773 , and his compositional ability enabled Sacchini , before his death in 1786 , to nominate Rey to complete Arvire et Evelina ( 1788 ) , which was successful and durable . |
| 3 | This model was first exhibited at the German Radio Exhibition in August 1934 . |
| 4 | The uniqueness of these localised vines was first recognised at the beginning of the century by Eugène-Aimé Salon , the founder of Champagne Salon ; more recently , in the early 1970s , the house of Krug purchased the entire single-site , wall-enclosed vineyard of ‘ Clos du Mesnil ’ , which is situated inside the village itself . |
| 5 | Maldoom 's version was first performed at the Theater Manufaktur , Berlin in August 1989 and was acclaimed by the German critics as ‘ one of the most significant to date ’ . |
| 6 | Strontium was first discovered at the type locality , Strontian , in western Scotland in strontianite associated with baryte . |
| 7 | The phenomenon was first detected at the Bugey-3 reactor in France in September 1991 , but Greenpeace criticises the state electricity company , Electricité de France ( EDF ) , for devoting more attention to rectifying problems as they occur than to examining the causes . |
| 8 | Lepine was first seen at the school between four o'clock and about twenty minutes past , sitting in the registrar 's office on a bench near the door , obstructing the way of students . |
| 9 | The Calibra was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and , for the moment at least , is the world 's most aerodynamic production car . |
| 10 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 11 | 1975 , ( the date the play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre ) . |
| 12 | When the house was first exhibited at the Wembley Exhibition the six cars in the garage occasioned much comment . |
| 13 | The production was first given at the Theatre Royal in York , yet it transfers very well to the larger auditorium of the Grand . |