Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 4 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 10 | 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 . |