Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] for [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Serum calcium and albumin concentrations were measured for the first 7 days and at least weekly for 4 weeks after treatment . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Belt loops were specified for the first time , and the khaki trousers were not to bear branch-coloured leg stripes . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Banana splits still solved acute hunger problems but gorgeous undies were forgotten for the first time . |
11 | Ranks were restored in the People 's Liberation Army as from Oct. 1 , 1988 , and 17 generals were appointed for the first time in 23 years [ for adoption by NPC in July 1988 of regulations re-introducing military ranks see p. 36104 ] . |
12 | With corporal punishment abolished as a judicially imposed sentence , and capital punishment diverted , at least for a time , to a committee room in Whitehall , the decks were cleared for the first real post-war scrutiny of penal policy and methods . |
13 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
14 | Next day it rained very hard and the leggings were worn for the first time . |
15 | On March 28 such flights were resumed for the first time since the outbreak of war in the Gulf . |
16 | In tax matters the Empire was indeed surprisingly decentralised , with taxes levied exclusively by the states until 1914 when imperial taxes were imposed for the first time . |
17 | When the Mughal court was disbanded , Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other , Hindu , tradition of eunuchry . |
18 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
19 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
20 | Roux 's results were published for the first time in 1888 : three years later I tried to repeat this fundamental experiment on another subject and by a somewhat different method , It was known from the cytological researches of the brothers Hertwig and Boveri that the eggs of the common sea urchin are able to stand well all sorts of rough treatment , and that , in particular , when broken into pieces by shaking their fragments , will survive and continue to cleave . |
21 | It was also in 1883 , amidst considerable alarm about the increasing use of firearms by burglars , that the London police were armed for the first time in their history . |
22 | In the next annual , all first-class scores were published for the first time ; in 1867 the convention began of including the births and deaths of cricketers ; and in 1870 descriptions of matches were contained in the almanack . |
23 | By 1942 , when family allowances were debated for the first tune in Parliament , the principle had acquired supporters of most shades of political opinion . |
24 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
25 | Ironically , David Guest 's victory came on the day that television cameras were allowed for the first time to record proceedings in a Scottish court . |
26 | During the First World War , women were employed for the first time , resulting from Manager Furness ' refusal to employ any able-bodied man eligible for military service . |
27 | Howell rose to the occasion and during the following nine years Bowdoin was transformed : among other changes , women were admitted for the first time , and hitherto neglected subjects like Afro-American studies added to the curriculum . |
28 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
29 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
30 | In that imperial annus mirabilis of 1897 Nonconformist representatives were invited for the first time in English history to take part in a royal celebration when thirty representatives were allowed places at St Paul 's to witness the short act of worship in the midst of the Queen 's Jubilee procession through London . |