Example sentences of "[was/were] first [verb] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was first presented at the ESRC Workshop on Ageing at the University of Surrey , September 1986 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the house was first exhibited at the Wembley Exhibition the six cars in the garage occasioned much comment . |
| 5 | Maldoom 's version was first performed at the Theater Manufaktur , Berlin in August 1989 and was acclaimed by the German critics as ‘ one of the most significant to date ’ . |
| 6 | His anthem ‘ Let God Arise ’ was first performed at the Norwich Festival of 1849 : Charles Lucas called it ‘ the best antiphonal work since the days of Handel ’ , and The Times found in it ‘ gifts that are accorded to few ’ . |
| 7 | The prototype of the XJ220 was first shown at the Birmingham Motor Show almost 4 years ago . |
| 8 | The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer . |
| 9 | The Calibra was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and , for the moment at least , is the world 's most aerodynamic production car . |