Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjuvant therapy was not given to the first 44 successfully treated patients . |
| 2 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 3 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 4 | Monitoring of his circulatory state via the central venous pressure line was not required after the first 24 hours and the line was therefore removed . |
| 5 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 6 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 7 | In 1973 the tide turned with a 5-to-4 majority ruling by the Supreme Court in Miller v California that obscenity , as narrowly defined , was not protected by the First Amendment , and that each state could set its own standard : ‘ People in different States vary in their tastes and attitudes , and this diversity is not to be strangled by the absolutism of imposed uniformity . ’ |
| 8 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
| 9 | And when you the schools , the shops in that area , I 'm not only surprised it was n't considered in the first place , but secondly , it is the key to the whole scheme and er although I 'm quite happy to move the erm recommendation , I must say that I have a very very deep concern regarding Road . |