Example sentences of "were first [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These traps are large constructions of poles and wire netting which were first devised on the island of Heligoland , off the German coast in the North Sea . |
| 2 | In his first season , McKinnon will present two plays which were first seen at the Traverse Theatre , Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Those images were first seen in the catechisms , Bibles , books of hours , and hymnals used to convert the Indians and direct their worship . |
| 4 | This fanatical regard for esteemed works as they were first given to the public leads to intimidating variations in price . |
| 5 | When American troops were first sent to the Gulf Region after the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait , the reason given by the US for this deployment of troops was the protection of Saudi Arabia from an ‘ eventual invasion by Iraq ’ . |
| 6 | No Monday last , when the designs were first displayed to the public , it is believed that 10,000 persons visited the exhibition ; on Tuesday , when the crowd was somewhat less , 7,000 were present ; and on Wednesday the numbers again reached to 10,000 . |
| 7 | They were first displayed in the Circus Maximus and the Campus Martius by the Tiber . |
| 8 | They were first sighted in the Munich home of the Turkish art dealer Aydin Dikmen in 1983 . |
| 9 | The amendments , which were first noted in the Law Society Gazette of 6 May 1992 , came into force with effect from 1 June 1992 , that is at the same time the changes occasioned by the SAR and the ARR were effective ( Law Society bulletin No 7 provides full details ) . |
| 10 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 11 | However , there are some themes which recur in the evidence of those we consulted and which were first sounded in the Bullock and Swann Reports . |
| 12 | These were first deployed to the Gulf 3 weeks before Operation Desert Storm , the war which started a year ago this Friday . |
| 13 | Almost 25 years after the troops were first deployed in the province their equipment , combat gear , training and role in the conflict has changed dramatically . |
| 14 | They were first assessed by the researchers , then — if eligible and in the action areas — they were passed to the development officers . |
| 15 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 16 | Parish registers are the best example of records that were first kept during the Tudor era and which are now invaluable sources for the genealogist . |
| 17 | The risks and benefits of HRT were first explained with the aims of the study . |
| 18 | Drift-nets were first developed by the Japanese , and have been used since 1905 . |
| 19 | Gary Mills and Tony Poole have protested their innocence ever since they were first arrested for the murder of Hensley Wiltshire four years ago . |
| 20 | Self expandable steel braided endoprostheses were first used for the treatment of vascular and urological benign strictures , with good clinical results . |
| 21 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 22 | Another way in which controlled entry may be made to the supervisor is by means of extracodes , which were first used on the University of Manchester Atlas computer ( Sumner , Haley , and Chen 1962 ) . |
| 23 | Chico , whose street paintings were first used by the denim company in the ‘ Crosstown Traffic ’ advert , has now customised a number of their jackets with scenes of urban America to be used for promotional purposes and to raise money for charity . |
| 24 | When combines were first used in the prairies during the 1930's , they were often enveloped in a cloud of spores . |
| 25 | Correspondingly , some practical skills , such as playing sports , may have to be re-learnt when sober or non-tranquillised if they were first learnt under the influence of alcohol or drugs . |
| 26 | ZNF proteins contain ‘ finger ’ motifs consisting of approximately 30 amino acids which coordinate a zinc ion , and were first described in the Xenopus transcription factor IIIA ( 6,7 ) , but have been shown to be present in species as diverse as Drosophila and man . |
| 27 | Questionnaires were first designed with the assistance of the Equal Opportunities Commission and sent to samples of women and men barristers and Heads of Chambers at the Independent Bar . |
| 28 | While I do not know when details were first released to the public , there is an account of the incident in Captain Roskill 's The War at Sea — published by HMSO in 1960 , or 16 years after the event . |
| 29 | Metal concentrations were first measured in the endoscopy cleaning fluids , namely the detergent ( Teepol MB7 , Teepol Products ) and the disinfectant ( 2% glutaraldehyde solution , Totacide 28 , Coventry Chemicals Ltd ) . |
| 30 | Comic books were first published in the US in 1933 , for use as advertising giveaways . |