Example sentences of "[noun] first [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lost the opportunity to oppose the factory itself , local opposition first focused on the factory 's dumping plans . |
| 2 | This page : Rap styles first came to the UK via films like Wildstyle and Breakdance , and is now enjoying new interest from Hollywood after the huge US success of Kid N' Play 's House Party ( left ) . |
| 3 | When practice first begins on the patterns , a beginner often loses direction instantly and executes a block or a kick to the wrong side . |
| 4 | Serious violence first erupted on the evening of the second day of the trial ( 28 February ) , when a contingent of Sacheverell 's supporters smashed the windows of Dr Burgess 's meeting house in Lincoln Inn Fields , and then proceeded to do the same to his house . |
| 5 | Determining the role and scope of managers within the industry is an exercise which the Association first undertook in the 1970s . |
| 6 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 7 | Finally , it should be noted that s.14 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 , restating a rule first contained in the 1958 Act , provides that no provision in legislation prior to 1958 should be taken as ousting the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court , thus making clear the Government 's intention that all statutory tribunals should be subject to this jurisdiction regardless of whether other remedies are provided . |
| 8 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 9 | When Nicolae Ceauşescu first arrived in the city , Bucharest contained a dazzling array of buildings of all styles : examples of its older Balkan heritage could be found side by side with grandiose business palaces in the style of Central Europe 's Griinderjahre of the 1870s , with Art Deco and Cubist designs around the corner . |
| 10 | On May 25 the United States Congress finally approved US$300,000,000 in aid first requested by the US government in March [ see p. 37311 ] . |
| 11 | This article is taken from a longer piece first published in The Independent on 19 February 1990 . |
| 12 | While everyone puzzles over how these animals first arrived on the Isle of Man , stories of tailless cats being found in such faraway places as Russia , Malaysia , and China all leading to new theories , nobody seems to have considered that the tailless gene might first have occurred on the Isle of Man itself . |
| 13 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago when the Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand was number one . |
| 14 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago and its DJs have included Jimmy Savile , Tony Blackburn and Kenny Everett . |
| 15 | ‘ Check to see if that was the position when our chaps first came on the scene . ’ |
| 16 | How did the companies first come across the headhunting firms they employed ? |
| 17 | To compete in the all-important fleet market , sub-2-litre category lead-in versions of Safrane utilise the multivalve , 1995cc , four-cylinder engine first introduced on the Renault 25 in July 1989 . |
| 18 | The 1.8-litre petrol engine first introduced in the Clio during May 1991 is similar to the unit now also offered in some models of the Renault 19 . |
| 19 | Socata 's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left , concluding it could never match such performance . |
| 20 | Recent major signings OCEAN COLOUR SCENE first surfed into the indie charts last summer with the delightfully trippy ‘ Sway ’ . |
| 21 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 22 | How the Manx cat first arrived on the Isle of Man is hotly debated . |
| 23 | Matrix management first developed in the 1950s in the USA in the aerospace industry . |
| 24 | Indeed , anti-semitic behaviour had been incipient within the ranks of the BUF from the outset and included elements first recruited from the New Party . |
| 25 | Gassendi begins by addressing a question first raised by the Greek sceptics , as we saw in Chapter 1 . |
| 26 | When the Angelfish first came onto the market , it was an aggressive fish which showed its intolerance towards other tank mates . |
| 27 | Central News South first took to the air for the first time on January 9th 1989 . |
| 28 | This meant that when some ancient sharks first took to the sea bottom , there was an easy smooth progression to the skate shape , with each intermediate being a slight improvement , given bottom conditions , over its slightly less flattened predecessor . |
| 29 | According to The Wall Street Journal , Washington first heard about the coup plans from the wife of the rebel leader , Major Moises Giroldi , nearly three weeks ago . |
| 30 | In the 80 years since the aeroplane first appeared in the county , it has brought a great deal of pleasure and prosperity . |