Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 2 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 3 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 4 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 5 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 6 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 7 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 8 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 9 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 10 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 11 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 12 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 13 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 14 | Eventually , on Feb. 23 , a non-Congress ( I ) government was sworn in for the first time in 10 years . |
| 15 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 16 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 17 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 18 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 19 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 20 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 21 | But Jones said : ‘ He was moping around in training this morning whether it was because he was left out of the first team I 'm not sure . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I 'm disgusted that I was allowed out of the first hospital in that state . ’ |
| 23 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 24 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 25 | He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career . |
| 26 | The Institution 's structure was then expanded from three to four Divisions , and building surveying was singled out for the first time , and referred to as IIIB ( Division III , Building ) . |
| 27 | Fleck was kept out of the first meeting between the two sides at Carrow Road — when Chelsea went down 2-1 . |
| 28 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 29 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |