Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] in the first " in BNC.

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31 The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history .
32 Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers .
33 Indeed , it was largely because of this stance of old-fashioned industrial unionism that he had been elected in the first place .
34 There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed .
35 Agreement on the treaty had been reached in the first round of negotiations on bilateral relations in Warsaw on Oct. 30-31 .
36 An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases , also , where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention .
37 It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith .
38 It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it .
39 Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War .
40 Jitters had been wounded in the first landing , in the shoulder .
41 But as you say , switch off first and then still use a stick or something to get them away because it maybe the switch does n't work and maybe that 's why they 've been electrocuted in the first place .
42 Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures .
43 Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats .
44 The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years .
45 Surprisingly , less than 500 people have been arrested in the first 24 hours of the riots .
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