Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |
| 2 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 3 | This debate re-opens some of the issues that were touched upon in the first chapter concerning the nature of metaphysics and the argument that Ayer acts in a reductionist way by proscribing , in effect , certain interpretations of reality . |
| 4 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 5 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 6 | However , if this is accepted , then we end up again with the concept of a particular as some kind of a temporally extended " peg " for qualities — a view which the theory was directed against in the first instance . |