Example sentences of "[was/were] first [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When American troops were first sent to the Gulf Region after the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait , the reason given by the US for this deployment of troops was the protection of Saudi Arabia from an ‘ eventual invasion by Iraq ’ . |
| 2 | They were first sighted in the Munich home of the Turkish art dealer Aydin Dikmen in 1983 . |
| 3 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 4 | However , there are some themes which recur in the evidence of those we consulted and which were first sounded in the Bullock and Swann Reports . |
| 5 | These were first deployed to the Gulf 3 weeks before Operation Desert Storm , the war which started a year ago this Friday . |
| 6 | Parish registers are the best example of records that were first kept during the Tudor era and which are now invaluable sources for the genealogist . |
| 7 | Comic books were first published in the US in 1933 , for use as advertising giveaways . |
| 8 | Women were first recruited into the RUC in 1944 , and were restricted to Belfast and Londonderry , where they dealt exclusively with offences against children and women . |
| 9 | In several cases , important types of behaviour were first investigated in the Lorenz equations although these behaviours have since been recognised as typical of many systems . |
| 10 | As an example , we will use the case of index-linked government bonds which were first introduced in the UK in March 1981 . |
| 11 | The position was first regularised by the Regency Act 1937 and further Acts dealing with the matter were passed in 1943 and 1953 , after the accession of Elizabeth II . |
| 12 | According to newspaper reports , the two-plus-four formula was first devised by the US administration in response to growing pressure within the two German states for unification after the opening of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 [ see pp. 37024-26 ] . |
| 13 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |
| 14 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 15 | It was first presented at the ESRC Workshop on Ageing at the University of Surrey , September 1986 . |
| 16 | The play , which was first presented in the West End in 1988 , may have been overtaken by events but in no way seems dated by this factor . |
| 17 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
| 18 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
| 19 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 20 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 21 | He was first employed by the Cecils at Hatfield prior to his becoming arboriculturalist to George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , and then , in 1630 , ‘ Keeper of his Majesty 's Gardens , Vines and Silkworms ’ , being succeeded at his death in 1638 by his son , John . |
| 22 | The new F7 unit was first employed in the Renault 19 16V launched in Britain in March 1991 . |
| 23 | The depletion of the ozone layer was first noted over the Antarctic , and , more recently , over the Arctic . |
| 24 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 25 | He was first elected to the Liverpool city council as a Liberal in 1903 , was leader of its Liberal party in 1918 , and served almost continuously until his death , at which time he was chairman of the finance committee . |
| 26 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 27 | Sir James was first detected on the Grandmet share register earlier this year . |
| 28 | It was with this in mind that when oil was first discovered in the North Sea , ICI set about joining a number of exploration consortia . |
| 29 | Pat Keen gave a short talk on the history and work of MRM , with Vanessa Forbes , Janice Hewitt and Chris Jones as class members in a practical demonstration , ending with a performance of Vanessa 's Surrey item which was first seen at the Crystal Palace Rally . |
| 30 | Like many others , it was first recorded in the Domesday survey as a corn mill , but as virtually all mills were corn mills , this is not unusual . |