Example sentences of "first [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] 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 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 4 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 5 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The firm first moved to the Strand in 1891 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gasification was first used in the US in 1873 to supplement coal and coke oven gas . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As an example , we will use the case of index-linked government bonds which were first introduced in the UK in March 1981 . |
| 15 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 16 | Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique ( 1965 ) , which first appeared in the US in 1963 , at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , quotes male psychologists extensively and uncritically . |
| 17 | The Slavs first appeared in the Balkans in the late fourth century AD as marauders who raided the Romanised settlements south of the Danube from their temporary resting place in Hungary . |
| 18 | Women were first recruited into the RUC in 1944 , and were restricted to Belfast and Londonderry , where they dealt exclusively with offences against children and women . |
| 19 | Comic books were first published in the US in 1933 , for use as advertising giveaways . |