Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] the [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 2 | It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive . |
| 3 | The strongest critiques of local government as it was in the 1970s concentrate not on its localness , but its position within a national system and , above all , use it as an example of what its critics see as the failings of bureaucratic decision-making . |
| 4 | It was in the first place a great age in the growth of military education . |
| 5 | of the day I do n't which government it was at that time cos it was in the fifties okayed it and |
| 6 | This restores the document to the way it was before the first Undo command |
| 7 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 8 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
| 9 | He was among the first to champion Eliot . |
| 10 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 11 | He was among the first to welcome the radical reforms launched by Mrs Thatcher , especially in curbing the entrenched legal privileges of the trade unions . |
| 12 | Alexei had risen before the sun broke the horizon , and because he was engaged to wait upon Jehana at the house of her father — a public display to advertise the fact of their intended betrothal which was designed , he guessed , to make it believable — he was among the first to witness the damage which the teams of wrights and carpenters now laboured to repair . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 14 | He was among the first to introduce the French style of plein-air landscape painting of the 1830s to London . |
| 15 | He was among the first to offer his warmest congratulations to the victorious Mr Clinton and since then the two leaders have spoken a number of times by telephone . |
| 16 | At Gold Hill ( later Dunstall Priory ) , Shoreham , Kent ( 1806 ) he produced a notably early example of a villa in the Italianate vernacular style of Nash 's Cronkhill , and at Balloch Castle , Dunbarton ( 1809 ) , he was amongst the first to introduce the picturesquely asymmetrical castle form into Scotland ; but he was a designer of only limited ability , frequently reducing the process of picturesque composition to a meagrely detailed routine formula of only marginal asymmetry . |