Example sentences of "first [vb pp] [prep] 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 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Duke Street premises were first occupied by the club in 1945 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The firm first moved to the Strand in 1891 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Gasification was first used in the US in 1873 to supplement coal and coke oven gas . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nearing the end of its two-year redevelopment , the centre was first opened by the Queen in 1987 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Psychological models of speech recognition ( Cole & Jakimik 1980 , Marslen-Wilson 1975 ) at first concentrated on the way in which sentential context could speed up the process of word recognition in fluent speech . |
| 22 | As an example , we will use the case of index-linked government bonds which were first introduced in the UK in March 1981 . |
| 23 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 24 | ( b ) If the legal concept is not mentioned in the question but is first introduced by the candidate in his answer , it should be explained . |
| 25 | Since Charles figured in later medieval tales as the killer of Bernard to avenge his mother 's honour , or , alternatively , as Bernard 's bastard son , it is worth stressing that the charge of adultery against Judith is mentioned only in 830 ( Bernard is first documented at the palace in 824 ) and that no contemporary source ever cast doubt on Charles 's paternity . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Unlike his Foreign Minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Dr Kohl had first reacted to the changes in East Germany by highlighting German reunification . |
| 28 | Located in the Thar desert region of the Sindh province , the field was first discovered by the company in 1989 , with the drilling of the exploration well Kadanwari-1 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | This part of India was first studied by the researcher in 1971-2 , because it was included in the Kosi river irrigation system and was therefore a special area for government support to agriculture . |