Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B . |
| 2 | When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing . |
| 3 | The presidium and committees were to be formed by December , and it was hoped to hold the first session of the Baltic Assembly by January 1992 . |
| 4 | Fuad Masum , a member of the political bureau of the PUK , was asked to form the first government . |
| 5 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 6 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |