Example sentences of "[was/were] first [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In his first season , McKinnon will present two plays which were first seen at the Traverse Theatre , Edinburgh . |
2 | The uniqueness of these localised vines was first recognised at the beginning of the century by Eugène-Aimé Salon , the founder of Champagne Salon ; more recently , in the early 1970s , the house of Krug purchased the entire single-site , wall-enclosed vineyard of ‘ Clos du Mesnil ’ , which is situated inside the village itself . |
3 | Rey 's own music was first heard at the Concert Spirituel in 1773 , and his compositional ability enabled Sacchini , before his death in 1786 , to nominate Rey to complete Arvire et Evelina ( 1788 ) , which was successful and durable . |
4 | It was first presented at the ESRC Workshop on Ageing at the University of Surrey , September 1986 . |
5 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
6 | The production was first given at the Theatre Royal in York , yet it transfers very well to the larger auditorium of the Grand . |
7 | Strontium was first discovered at the type locality , Strontian , in western Scotland in strontianite associated with baryte . |
8 | Lepine was first seen at the school between four o'clock and about twenty minutes past , sitting in the registrar 's office on a bench near the door , obstructing the way of students . |
9 | Pat Keen gave a short talk on the history and work of MRM , with Vanessa Forbes , Janice Hewitt and Chris Jones as class members in a practical demonstration , ending with a performance of Vanessa 's Surrey item which was first seen at the Crystal Palace Rally . |
10 | The greatest of 'em all , Abraham Lincoln , received a belated musical nod during 1968 , when songwriter Dick Holler linked the 16th President 's name to that of the Kennedy 's and Martin Luther King to provide Dion with a three million seller in ‘ Abraham , Martin And John ’ , while Ulysses Simpson Grant , the next Republican to be called to office in Lincoln 's wake , was hailed by Patrick Gilmore 's ‘ President Grant 's March ’ , which still gets played at the White House during various ceremonies , though far older is ‘ Hail To The Chief ’ , a ditty based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott , which was first played at the inauguration of James Knox Polk , in 1845 , and has been retained to announce the arrival of presidents ever since . |
11 | When the house was first exhibited at the Wembley Exhibition the six cars in the garage occasioned much comment . |
12 | Maldoom 's version was first performed at the Theater Manufaktur , Berlin in August 1989 and was acclaimed by the German critics as ‘ one of the most significant to date ’ . |
13 | The programme included Baroque pieces by Purcell , Torelli , Bach and Handel , and began with Professor Raymond Warren 's Ceremonial Fanfare for trumpet and organ , which was first performed at the University 's Centenary Degree Congregation in the Colston Hall in 1976 and subsequently , in a revised form , at the installation of the present Chancellor , Sir Jeremy Morse , in 1989 . |
14 | His anthem ‘ Let God Arise ’ was first performed at the Norwich Festival of 1849 : Charles Lucas called it ‘ the best antiphonal work since the days of Handel ’ , and The Times found in it ‘ gifts that are accorded to few ’ . |
15 | The prototype of the XJ220 was first shown at the Birmingham Motor Show almost 4 years ago . |
16 | The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer . |
17 | The Calibra was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and , for the moment at least , is the world 's most aerodynamic production car . |