Example sentences of "be first [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 3 | The last five tables listed in Figure 14.2 were first introduced in the eighteenth edition . |
| 4 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 5 | The castle , silhouetted against the sky , was first built in the thirteenth century , but was destroyed in 1350 in one of the local quarrels of the period . |
| 6 | It was first recorded in the nineteenth century in the inventories of the Corsini collection , Florence , where it is last noted in 1880 , leaving Italy ‘ well before the current laws went into effect ’ , as Getty paintings curator George Goldner points out . |
| 7 | The Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard on the River Medway was first established in the 16th century . |
| 8 | This feature was first introduced in the eighteenth century to let owls into the barn to catch vermin . |