Example sentences of "first [verb] in the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 3 | Toad , Ratty , Mole and Badger are making a comeback , eighty-five years after first appearing in the Wind in the Willows . |
| 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 | Gasification was first used in the US in 1873 to supplement coal and coke oven gas . |
| 7 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 8 | When TB was first found in the herd in 1986 , Ministry of Agriculture trapping and testing of the 200 badgers in the area around the farm showed 20% of them carried TB . |
| 9 | This has changed little in principle since mining first started in the county in medieval times . |
| 10 | Two hundred dozen that was when I first started in the industry in the sort of la early sixties . |
| 11 | As an example , we will use the case of index-linked government bonds which were first introduced in the UK in March 1981 . |
| 12 | The Sanasilva report noted that the condition of the oak , spruce and Scots pine , the main species in the Alps , is the worst on record since the phenomenon of dying forests was first documented in the region in 1985 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | SINCE vitamin E was first discovered in the rat in 1922 so many ill-founded claims for its role in human nutrition have been made that cynics have dubbed it ‘ E for everything ’ . |
| 16 | Comic books were first published in the US in 1933 , for use as advertising giveaways . |