Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 32 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 33 | The chancellor who had long been an admirer of the queen , was affected not for the first time by her beauty and appeal — attributes which , it seemed to him , were in no way impaired by adversity . |
| 34 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 35 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 36 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 37 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 38 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 39 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 40 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 41 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 42 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 43 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 44 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 45 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 46 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 47 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 48 | But Jones said : ‘ He was moping around in training this morning whether it was because he was left out of the first team I 'm not sure . |
| 49 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |
| 50 | It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold . |
| 51 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 52 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 53 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 54 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 55 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 56 | Stuart Barnes , the match captain , said : ‘ This team was playing together for the first time . |
| 57 | Judgment was reserved yesterday on the first legal moves to pin the blame for the contamination . |
| 58 | Whole gut transit was determined radiographically by the first arrival of the radio-opaque marker(s) and the time when 50% or more of the radio-opaque markers were in the stool . |
| 59 | Places were limited , participation was determined individually on a first come , first served basis , and the centre 's main client group , elderly disabled people , were given priority . |
| 60 | The Institution 's structure was then expanded from three to four Divisions , and building surveying was singled out for the first time , and referred to as IIIB ( Division III , Building ) . |