Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 2 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 3 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 4 | The right to national self-determination was formally included in the first programme of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) , but was accorded a relatively low priority . |
| 5 | Yevgeny Primakov , the Deputy Foreign Minister recently prominent in Soviet mediation efforts to end the Gulf Conflict , was similarly rejected in a first round of voting , but was endorsed after he had been renominated . |
| 6 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 7 | This was conveniently encapsulated in the first try . |
| 8 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 9 | Neither goalkeeper was seriously threatened in the first half , with the exception of a speculative 25-yard drive in the 15th minute by Love , who was making his first-team debut for the Edinburgh club . |