Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
2 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
3 | It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) . |
4 | Transient UOS relaxations were clustered predominantly into the first few seconds of oesophageal distention consistent with the triggering of transient UOS relaxations reported by Kahrilas et al in adults . |
5 | Parasitaemia on thick blood films and symptoms were recorded daily for the first week and subsequently every week until 28 days after therapy . |
6 | Legislative elections were held simultaneously with the first round of the presidential elections on April 8 , 1990 , when no party gained an overall majority [ see p. 37371 ] . |