Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 2 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 3 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 4 | Statistics were anslysed using the FIRST statistics package ( Serious Statistical Software , Willaston , South Wirral ) . |
| 5 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 6 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 7 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 8 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 9 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 10 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 11 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 12 | A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B . |
| 13 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 14 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 15 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 16 | When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing . |
| 17 | The presidium and committees were to be formed by December , and it was hoped to hold the first session of the Baltic Assembly by January 1992 . |
| 18 | This position was confirmed by the death of Yeats in 1939 , and it was an apt image of succession that Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture at Dublin in June 1940 . |
| 19 | Fuad Masum , a member of the political bureau of the PUK , was asked to form the first government . |
| 20 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 21 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 22 | A working group , with representatives of all the republics concerned , was established to prepare a first draft . |
| 23 | His father , who works in Oman , was planning to catch the first flight home . |