Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 2 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 3 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 17 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 22 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 25 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 30 | 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 . |