Example sentences of "first [verb] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new devices , currently under beta test in the US , will first ship to the UK in May . |
| 2 | The Professional Aviation Jet Prop DC-3 from the Republic of South Africa ( marking the first time the RSA has ever displayed an aircraft at Farnborough ) employs the Schafer/Aero Modifications International design ( first flown in the US in August 1986 ) and they have been ‘ building ’ examples since 1991 . |
| 3 | The first refers to the manner in which the tribunals interpret and apply employment legislation , though the Report recognizes that the complex language and structure of the controlling legislation contributes to the potential for legalism . |
| 4 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 5 | Toad , Ratty , Mole and Badger are making a comeback , eighty-five years after first appearing in the Wind in the Willows . |
| 6 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 7 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 8 | When the Stockton and Darlington Railway first rolled through the countryside in the 1820s , there really was n't very much in the Middleton area for a bored passenger to look out at from a window . |
| 9 | The Duke Street premises were first occupied by the club in 1945 . |
| 10 | Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market . |
| 11 | Wintering birds first appear at the coast in August and September , and most have left by early April . |
| 12 | First presented to the Senate in February 1986 , the government 's revised programme divided the code into three parts , the first of which was passed by both houses on May 17 , 1990 . |
| 13 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 14 | Phyllida Lloyd 's production , first seen at the Swan in Stratford last year and now triumphantly installed in the Pit theatre at the Barbican , is no dusty exercise in theatrical archaeology . |
| 15 | First seen at the Swan in Stratford last year , the show now transfers to the Barbican 's main stage , with Jonathan Hyde , David Bradley and Joanne Pearce repeating their fine performances as the unholy trinity of con artists . |
| 16 | The plaintiffs are also waiting to hear the depositions , hitherto withheld , of three important witnesses : Richard Camber , a former director of Sotheby 's ; Felicity Nicholson , head of the Antiquities Department at Sotheby 's , and Dr Anna Bennett of the Institute of Archaeology in London , who conducted the scientific tests on the treasure before it was first revealed to the world in February 1990 . |
| 17 | The firm first moved to the Strand in 1891 . |
| 18 | Mondrian , who had felt the impact of Cubism even before reaching Paris , had first exhibited at the Indépendants in 1911 , submitting his painting from an address in Amsterdam . |
| 19 | And there was a Dutch historian , Reneer in London , who used to give lectures in which he made a point of not knowing any dates , and he would say ‘ The Armada came in ’ , and then there 'd be a little row of girls who 'd call out ‘ Fifteen eighty-eight ’ , and then he 'd say ‘ James the First came to the throne in ’ , and they would call out ‘ Sixteen oh three . ’ |
| 20 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 21 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 22 | When ‘ English ’ first came on the scene in the nineteenth century , it was precisely as a form of Cultural Studies , involving not only language and literature , but history , geography , philosophy , and so on , requiring the first professors of the subject to be polymaths . |
| 23 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 24 | The chapter opens by recalling that the term ‘ industrial democracy ’ was first used by the Webbs in 1897 as the title of their book on the structure and functions of trade unions . |
| 25 | Gasification was first used in the US in 1873 to supplement coal and coke oven gas . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Founded by Charles II in 1675 , the observatory was first opened to the public in the 1950s and contains one of the world 's finest collections of precision clocks and scientific instruments . |
| 28 | Nearing the end of its two-year redevelopment , the centre was first opened by the Queen in 1987 . |
| 29 | It was first approved by the Association in 1983 , but in October 1985 the Library Association Council approved some guidance notes on the Code , and these were published in March 1986 . |
| 30 | Since Evans first dug at the site in 1900 archaeological work has largely concentrated on revealing the remains of the palace of King Minos and other buildings of the extraordinary Minoan civilisation . |