Example sentences of "first [verb] [prep] [art] [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 led to a pregnancy in a 90-year-old woman ( Sarah X ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 6 | Toad , Ratty , Mole and Badger are making a comeback , eighty-five years after first appearing in the Wind in the Willows . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Duke Street premises were first occupied by the club in 1945 . |
| 11 | The company plans to concentrate on Britain , Germany and Belgium — the areas expected to be among the first to benefit from a turnaround in the property sector , especially in industrial and office buildings . |
| 12 | Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market . |
| 13 | Wintering birds first appear at the coast in August and September , and most have left by early April . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 16 | The causal parasite , a one-celled organism which thrived in red blood cells and was named Plasmodium malariae , was first seen under a microscope in 1880 by the French physician Alphonse Laveran ( 1845–1922 ) while he was serving in Algeria . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The firm first moved to the Strand in 1891 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The first came from a man in the front row , a crumpled , resilient-looking individual with the look of someone who has been dropped on his head from a great height at some stage in his life . |
| 27 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This term was first used in a speech in Prague in April 1987 which recognised Europe , despite its deep ideological rift , as a single cultural and historical entity ‘ from the Atlantic to the Urals ’ , a phrase which echoed de Gaulle 's vision of the 1960s . |
| 30 | Gasification was first used in the US in 1873 to supplement coal and coke oven gas . |