Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] first be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting . |
| 2 | The index set defined first is known as the prime index , to distinguish it from the alternate indexes . |
| 3 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 4 | The Boarding House had first been produced at the Lyceum Theatre , London , in 1811 , but we have no record of when Vale first began acting , only that , according to the Gentleman 's Magazine , he made his ‘ metropolitan début at the Olympic under the management of the late Mr Wrench ’ ( Benjamin Wrench , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | The merger move had first been announced by the Serbian communists on June 7 , with the Socialist Alliance expressing itself in favour on July 5 . |