Example sentences of "is first [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drowsiness is first indicated by a reduction in the frequency of alpha rhythm , from about 10Hz to 8.5Hz or so In a young adult , as well as a reduction in its amplitude , and then by its disappearance . |
| 2 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Northampton began life as a fortified position in the early tenth century — it is first recorded as a name in the year 917 — and soon became the shire town . |
| 5 | , Hans ( fl. 1540–1573 ) , painter , of Netherlandish origin , is first recorded as a freeman of the Antwerp guild of St Luke in 1540 . |
| 6 | The claim is biologically nonsensical , but it seems to have had political significance since it is first recorded in the context of a diplomatic initiative of the emperor Valentinian I , intended to secure Burgundian support against Macrianus , king of the Alamans . |
| 7 | Freames Mill is first recorded around the middle of the 17th century , when it consisted of a fulling mill and possibly a corn mill . |
| 8 | The frequency with which such copies are taken will be determined by each individual lexicographer , but in any event the system will copy the entry when it is first called from the Working-Set . |
| 9 | This property , in Foster Lane , Bow Lane , and Watling Street , is first enumerated in a rent roll of Christmas 1496 . |
| 10 | ( ii ) Expose the body wall by grasping the skin of the abdomen immediately above and below the midline with fingers and thumb and pulling simultaneously towards the head and feet ( this procedure can be made easier if a small midline knick is first made in the skin with a pair of scissors ) . |
| 11 | In another , the dialogue is first presented as a unit for the learner to hear . |
| 12 | The energy that is lost during an exothermic reaction is first transferred to the reaction mixture . |
| 13 | Then if we evaluate unc as a chain , beginning by premultiplying A by the last of the three matrices in ( 4 ) , and if also we take unc then A is first replaced by a matrix in which the leading element of the infradiagonal vanishes . |
| 14 | A glass column is first packed with a slurry of the two phases . |
| 15 | Note that when power is first applied to the circuit , there will be a slight delay before the amplifier begins to work . |
| 16 | CCLGF business is first discussed in a body known as the Official Steering Group ( OSG ) which consists of senior officials of the associations and their advisers on the one side , and of senior government officials on the other : |
| 17 | The household linen hang-ing on the clothes-line stretched across the backyard is certainly clean and white when it is first put on the line to dry . |
| 18 | He is first found as a canon of Lincoln in 1265 ; he died 4 November , perhaps in 1278 . |
| 19 | His name is first found in the watermark of a postage stamp for Barbados as early as 1840 . |
| 20 | Winterthur is first mentioned during the history of the third century , though the present town was founded in 1180 . |
| 21 | We might note that the adjective hende , which we shall find extensively exploited in Chaucer 's Miller 's Tale , is also used of Dame Sirith , when she is first mentioned in the text , in line 154 . |
| 22 | The code for a particular protein is first copied by a process known as transcription into a complementary molecule , messenger-RNA , which is also made up of four nucleotides . |
| 23 | Thus a document which is first brought to the purchaser 's notice after the contract is made will not incorporate into the contract terms printed on the document . |
| 24 | The dichotomy is first signalled by the change from G♯ to F♯ keyboards . |
| 25 | ( 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 . |
| 26 | The energy absorbed during the reaction is first taken from the reaction mixture . |
| 27 | It can be read millions of times over , but only written to once — when it is first assembled at the birth of the cell in which it resides . |
| 28 | A set of amnesics is first assembled on the basis of their low scores on a clinical memory test . |
| 29 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |