Example sentences of "were [verb] by the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DNA types were designated by the first initial of each family surname , and DNA subtypes by the addition of ‘ a ’ or ‘ b ’ ( Table I ) . |
| 2 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 3 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 4 | Although Cohen had been successful , the state 's Supreme Court had overturned the result on the grounds that the newspapers were protected by the First Amendment . |
| 5 | His novels were praised by the first Earl of Balfour , and were said to have been the favourite reading of Queen Alexandra . |
| 6 | but a large group in the party were scarred by the First World War for the rest of their lives . |
| 7 | But , in those terms , taking the very wide range of social systems which were studied by the first generation of British social anthropologists as a model ( the list includes the Trobrianders , the Tikopia , the Bemba , the Tswana , the Azande , the Nuer , the Nupe , and the Tallensi among others ) , is it possible to formulate a useful stereotype of what this notional entity " a primitive society " or " a savage ( wild ) society " is like ? |