Example sentences of "been [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many valuable drugs have been recognized first as poisons . |
| 2 | In dealing with the techniques of studying , memory has been treated first , for without memory all study would be in vain . |
| 3 | This particular feature in the landscapes at Horta de Ebro , the solid , almost tangible , treatment of the sky , had been developed first in Cubist painting by Braque as a result of his new ideas about pictorial space . |
| 4 | But on the principle that most clever ideas in this field seem to have been developed first by bats , I do n't mind betting that the answer is yes . |
| 5 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 6 | I think we should have been consulted first |
| 7 | ‘ In that case it would be better if you brought us up to date with what 's been happening first . ’ |
| 8 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 9 | I would agree with that , Chairman , but I think that it should be so considered that the building 's been built first . |
| 10 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 11 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 12 | Erm the remaining seventy two percent are entirely separate from this and obviously that 's a a very important point to bear in mind when you consider the level of allocation that 's been made first of all , and secondly the likelihood that if that is successful , first of all if it 's approved , if it 's recommended by the panel and eventually taken on by the county , and secondly if happens , then it is likely that it will result in skewing of the workforce even more towards the manufacturing sector of the economy and would in our view be contrary to the aim of diversification of the economic base . |
| 13 | The prototype and test-bed for the new approach was to been seen first in some of the New Towns , particularly Harlow , where the design of the neighbourhood units provided a classic model to follow . |
| 14 | This reflects the fact that the very far-reaching social changes that have overtaken the English countryside in recent decades have been rooted first and foremost in changes within the agricultural industry — the decline of the landed estates , the technological revolution in farming , the drift from the land of agricultural workers , and so on . |
| 15 | The sale ( subject to British export control regulations ) was made through Christie 's after the completion of the loan period and after the National Gallery had been offered first refusal . |
| 16 | The Open championship , first held in 1860 , has been transformed first by television and then by the boom in corporate hospitality . |
| 17 | After all , had n't the insuperable iron ships , the powerful weapons , the all-conquering engines of the colonialists been born first in the determined spirit of Western man ? |
| 18 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 19 | Interestingly , the date of the building is roughly contemporary with the Combe Down inscription , coinciding with a considerable tightening of control over imperial estates under the emperor Severus , when the liberality which had been introduced first by Hadrian and later by Pertinax was largely cancelled . |
| 20 | Was it right to present this all at one time to the boards for them to pick and chose , or should practical issues , such as board operations , have been introduced first , before asking them to consider larger educational issues ? |
| 21 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 22 | Alton has been put first by alphabetical chance , not for preference . |
| 23 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
| 24 | Ideally , steps should not be taken to remove children from parental care unless there is clearly no other way to prevent harm to them and unless other options , such as day-care , financial and housing help , have been investigated first . |
| 25 | A token economy had been tried first . |
| 26 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Youngs only struck Mr Wray after he had been punched first . |
| 27 | Following their success in a Dubai tournament in November , the Scots have been seeded first for an event in Canberra on March 13 which opens their tour . |
| 28 | We had been warned first to make our obeisances to the dead king before we even acknowledged his long-suffering queen . |
| 29 | As with the clearance of the forest of the British Isles since the last glaciation , those areas with the ‘ least resistance ’ , i.e. with shallow dry soils , have been cleared first . |
| 30 | Derrida comments : ‘ It is the meaning of ‘ ’ history ’ or archia that should have been questioned first , perhaps ' . |