Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
| 2 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 3 | SOUTH AFRICA were easily beaten in the first one-day international against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston , Jamaica , yesterday . |
| 4 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 5 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 6 | In addition , a challenge may be issued by a person who is prosecuted with one of the offences to be considered that the conditions were improperly imposed in the first place . |
| 7 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 8 | At the other extreme the unit costs associated with dealing with deprived secondary school pupils ( AEN ) were actually reduced in the first year shown here . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 10 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 11 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 12 | The right to national self-determination was formally included in the first programme of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) , but was accorded a relatively low priority . |
| 13 | Yevgeny Primakov , the Deputy Foreign Minister recently prominent in Soviet mediation efforts to end the Gulf Conflict , was similarly rejected in a first round of voting , but was endorsed after he had been renominated . |
| 14 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 15 | This was conveniently encapsulated in the first try . |
| 16 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 17 | Neither goalkeeper was seriously threatened in the first half , with the exception of a speculative 25-yard drive in the 15th minute by Love , who was making his first-team debut for the Edinburgh club . |