Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 2 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 3 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 4 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 5 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 6 | It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) . |
| 7 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 8 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 9 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 10 | And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner . |
| 11 | But in three short years the following essential features of creative sound were worked out for the first time : cut-and-splice sound editing ; dubbing mute shots ( i.e. providing library sounds for completely silent bits of film ) ; quiet cameras ; ‘ talkback ’ and other intercom systems ; ‘ boom ’ microphones ( so the mike could be placed over the actor 's head and moved as necessary ) ; equalization ; track-bouncing ; replacement of dialogue ( including alternative languages ) ; filtering ( for removing traffic noise , wind noise , or for simulating telephone conversations ) ; busbars for routing controlled amounts of foldback or reverberation ; three-track recording ( music , effects , and dialogue , any of which could be changed as necessary ) ; automatic volume limiters ; and synchronous playback ( for dance or mimed shots ) . |
| 12 | In April 1983 , however , the main features of a draft agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the Afghan question were worked out for the first time during the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva . |
| 13 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 14 | made a quick exit from the Yorkshire Shield competition when they were knocked out of the first round 13–4 in a game spoiled by the wind . |
| 15 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 16 | Transient UOS relaxations were clustered predominantly into the first few seconds of oesophageal distention consistent with the triggering of transient UOS relaxations reported by Kahrilas et al in adults . |
| 17 | Parasitaemia on thick blood films and symptoms were recorded daily for the first week and subsequently every week until 28 days after therapy . |
| 18 | Legislative elections were held simultaneously with the first round of the presidential elections on April 8 , 1990 , when no party gained an overall majority [ see p. 37371 ] . |
| 19 | The Crusade was formed shortly after the first march . |
| 20 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 21 | The fourth-seeded American looked sluggish as his serve was broken twice in the first set by the unseeded Swede Magnus Gustafsson , who went on to win their quarter-final 6-2 , 7-6 , clinching the tiebreak 7-4 . |
| 22 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 23 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 24 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 25 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 26 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 27 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 28 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 29 | A BRITISH general was named yesterday as the first commander of Nato 's new Allied Rapid Reaction Corps , heading about 80,000 troops from 11 countries . |
| 30 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |