Example sentences of "[was/were] be [vb pp] for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 2 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 3 | Common sense requires one to recognize that the most significant things were what was being said for the first time , at least in that form , in modern Catholic history and with such authority . |
| 4 | The party 's Anglican commitment was as firm as ever before 1914 , even though it was being led for the first time by a man who was not an Anglican himself . |
| 5 | It was as if our vision was a piece of elastic which was being stretched for the first time after a long period in a drawer . |
| 6 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |