Example sentences of "[noun] first [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | This article is taken from a longer piece first published in The Independent on 19 February 1990 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When Ian Martin first announced to the world that he would be leaving the post of secretary general , there were few among us who could believe it . |
| 9 | Dr Pedretti has named the drawing The Angel in the Flesh , a phrase first used by the Renaissance scholar Cellini to describe Leonardo . |
| 10 | Needing to find precisely when their electrical axis first originated in the development of the animal , he began mapping the fields in progressively earlier stages of salamander embryogenesis and discovered that the electrical axis originated in the unfertilized egg , thus contradicting conventional biological and genetic theory . |
| 11 | Retrospective analysis of patients first seen in the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic between 1972 and 1990 . |
| 12 | He also confirmed that he had authorized US aid to Honduras in return for Honduran assistance to the contras , a quid pro quo arrangement first revealed during the trial of Oliver North [ see p. 36649 ] , but he claimed that the linkage within the arrangement had not been made explicit . |
| 13 | The solid foamed skin first formed on the top would then be steadily lifted by the foaming of the combustion-zone beneath and a vertical foamed ‘ pillar ’ rise from the block . |
| 14 | Since the EEC first voted against the imports , in December , West Germany has decided to impose a ban regardless of the final vote . |
| 15 | Her opponent , Wilma Aitken , was born in the year that Belle first played in the final . |
| 16 | The firm first moved to the Strand in 1891 . |
| 17 | We have noticed that it is-the Spirit who enables the adopted sons to call God ‘ Father ’ , ‘ Abba ’ , that intimate form of address first found on the lips of Jesus . |
| 18 | As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents . |
| 19 | When the Stockton and Darlington Railway first rolled through the countryside in the 1820s , there really was n't very much in the Middleton area for a bored passenger to look out at from a window . |
| 20 | when was that statement first incorporated into the brochure ? , what year approximately ? |
| 21 | The cloud first passed over the observatory between 10 and 15 April , and produced a pronounced dip in the measured intensity of radiation from the solar disc ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 22 | Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area . |
| 23 | by vigorous and confident campaigning Carter first succeeded in the Iowa caucuses and followed this by winning the New Hampshire primary of his party . |
| 24 | The hand first invaded by the flea was withered , its nails dropped from their place , its bone showing at the knuckles and wrist . |
| 25 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 26 | Buyers who favoured petrol could choose between the new fuel-injected 1.2-litre Energy concept engine and the fuel-injected 1.4-litre Energy four cylinder unit first fitted in the Renault 19 . |
| 27 | Some members of the school first heard about the ESSE/L Project " on the grapevine " through contacts with one of the Major Project schools , and through the school librarian 's contact with the DCSL . |
| 28 | It is generally assumed that both texts on British Library Additional MS 23986 are preserved there as fragments of longer originals , and this is certainly true of the Anglo-Norman ballad first written on the roll . |
| 29 | The first of these is the problem of observational equivalence , a problem first discussed in the context of rational expectations models by Sargent ( 1976a ) . |
| 30 | The major source of the neutralising capacity of saliva is its bicarbonate content , but there is now evidence that gland bearing oesophageal mucosa can also secrete alkali , a phenomenon first documented in the opossum esophagus in vivo . |