Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 2 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 3 | This was seen in the first five patients treated , by serial cholangiographies through indwelling nasobiliary catheters . |
| 4 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 5 | The moods and emotions of each were expressed in the first three movements . |
| 6 | Three hundred were sold in the first two days . |
| 7 | Two Swiss Red Cross workers taken hostage in Lebanon in October 1989 were released in the first half of August . |