Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 2 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 3 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 4 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
| 5 | During the relaying of this track , the Marton trams operated in a complete circle , returning to Talbot Square via Royal Oak and Lytham Road , while the St. Annes blue cars were diverted for the first time to the Promenade at Talbot Square . |
| 6 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 7 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 8 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 9 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
| 10 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 11 | Though the duties were reduced throughout the first half of the 19th century , they were not finally abolished until 1861 . |
| 12 | Along with the technology came the new scientific breed of brewers , and the skills of brewing chemists , administrators and engineers were harnessed for the first time . |
| 13 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 14 | Expectations were examined on the first day of the course and reviewed at the end . |
| 15 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 16 | But it 's only available if your contributions were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three . |
| 17 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 18 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 19 | Representatives of the United Kingdom and Argentine governments were joined for the first time by a Falklands official in talks on fishing controls held in the Argentinian capital , Buenos Aires , in May 1991 . |
| 20 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 21 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 22 | Some two hundred periti were summoned to the first session , but by April 1963 the number had reached 348 . |
| 23 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 24 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 25 | These problems were discussed at the first meeting of the Montreal Protocol Parties in Helsinki in May 1989 . |
| 26 | Here the Unionists were challenged for the first time in many years but the NILP shared the anti-Unionist vote with Independents , who polled 4.5 per cent in North and 2 per cent in Waterside . |
| 27 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 28 | The government showed its new military capabilities at the independence anniversary celebrations on Oct. 1 , 1989 , when Franco-German anti-tank missiles and French Mistral portable ground-to-air missiles were displayed for the first time . |
| 29 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 30 | Banana splits still solved acute hunger problems but gorgeous undies were forgotten for the first time . |