Example sentences of "was set [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis .
2 When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place .
3 In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting .
4 But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place ,
5 Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two .
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