Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting . |
| 2 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 3 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 4 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 5 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 6 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 7 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 8 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 9 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 10 | The absorbance versus temperature data were converted to the first derivative and the melting temperature was defined as the temperature at which the derivative curve attained its maximum value . |
| 11 | Data were returned from the first fly-by and from the next two , on 21 September 1974 and 16 March 1975 . |
| 12 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 13 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 14 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 15 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 16 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
| 17 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 18 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 19 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 20 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 21 | Though the duties were reduced throughout the first half of the 19th century , they were not finally abolished until 1861 . |
| 22 | Along with the technology came the new scientific breed of brewers , and the skills of brewing chemists , administrators and engineers were harnessed for the first time . |
| 23 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 24 | Expectations were examined on the first day of the course and reviewed at the end . |
| 25 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 26 | But it 's only available if your contributions were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three . |
| 27 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 28 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 29 | A Christmas tree was put up in Moscow 's Red Square for the first time , and on Christmas Eve the bells of St Basil 's Cathedral in Red Square were rung for the first time since 1917 . |
| 30 | Representatives of the United Kingdom and Argentine governments were joined for the first time by a Falklands official in talks on fishing controls held in the Argentinian capital , Buenos Aires , in May 1991 . |