Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 8 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 14 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |