Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer savory is grown as a half-hardy annual , sowing outdoors in April-May , to thin to 20cm ( 8in ) apart , when the plants will grow into little bushes , but be killed by the first hard frost in autumn . |
| 2 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 3 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 4 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 5 | This was shown by the first major DHAC protest following the 5 October 1968 demonstration , when the committee supported an NILP delegation to the council on the housing issue . |
| 6 | The introduction of agriculture was accompanied by the first major ‘ engineering ’ works in the landscape . |
| 7 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 8 | Not only the new moon but the full moon too was regarded by the Hebrews as being of great religious significance , and the timing of Passover was determined by the first full moon on or after the spring equinox . |