Example sentences of "was first [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position was first regularised by the Regency Act 1937 and further Acts dealing with the matter were passed in 1943 and 1953 , after the accession of Elizabeth II . |
| 2 | According to newspaper reports , the two-plus-four formula was first devised by the US administration in response to growing pressure within the two German states for unification after the opening of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 [ see pp. 37024-26 ] . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs are also waiting to hear the depositions , hitherto withheld , of three important witnesses : Richard Camber , a former director of Sotheby 's ; Felicity Nicholson , head of the Antiquities Department at Sotheby 's , and Dr Anna Bennett of the Institute of Archaeology in London , who conducted the scientific tests on the treasure before it was first revealed to the world in February 1990 . |
| 4 | ENDURING Coronation Street character Ken Barlow was first written into the soap as a make-weight who could easily be ditched . |
| 5 | Kate Kennett saw the problem when she was first invited to the school before the scheme had received any finance : |
| 6 | The uniqueness of these localised vines was first recognised at the beginning of the century by Eugène-Aimé Salon , the founder of Champagne Salon ; more recently , in the early 1970s , the house of Krug purchased the entire single-site , wall-enclosed vineyard of ‘ Clos du Mesnil ’ , which is situated inside the village itself . |
| 7 | On 22 November the question was first raised in the Commons and John Nott , then Minister of Defence , replied : ‘ It would be wholly against our policy to supply equipment such as Rolls-Royce engines direct to Argentina . |
| 8 | The Sanasilva report noted that the condition of the oak , spruce and Scots pine , the main species in the Alps , is the worst on record since the phenomenon of dying forests was first documented in the region in 1985 . |
| 9 | This was first formulated by the philosopher John Austin in a series of lectures which are now collected into a short book with the deceptively simple title of How to do Things with Words ( Austin 1962 ) . |
| 10 | For insertion into other sites ( eg , Xba I/ Stu I or Spe I/ Sma I ) each fragment was first subcloned into the Bam HI site of the multiple cloning vector pUC19 and subsequently isolated as a Xba I- Sma I fragment . |
| 11 | Rey 's own music was first heard at the Concert Spirituel in 1773 , and his compositional ability enabled Sacchini , before his death in 1786 , to nominate Rey to complete Arvire et Evelina ( 1788 ) , which was successful and durable . |
| 12 | World-wide co-operation in the matter of the venereal diseases was first formalized by the Brussels agreement of 1924 when the signatories undertook to provide a free treatment service for seamen of all countries who were found to be suffering from infection . |
| 13 | Here , as fig. 1.8 shows , the CS when it was first presented to the control subjects tended to suppress responding ; but thereafter , these subjects acquired the CR ( which involved an increase in responding ) more rapidly than did pre-exposed subjects . |
| 14 | It was first presented at the ESRC Workshop on Ageing at the University of Surrey , September 1986 . |
| 15 | The play , which was first presented in the West End in 1988 , may have been overtaken by events but in no way seems dated by this factor . |
| 16 | That 's the logic behind Schering 's Packman closed transfer system for sprays , which was first unveiled in the spring of last year . |
| 17 | This principle was first upheld by the House of Lords in the case of D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 and is now recognised within the statutory code . |
| 18 | the member of staff who was first alerted to the fire did not inform his colleagues ; Police radios did not work underground |
| 19 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
| 20 | However , if the right is not commercially exploited within 15 years of the creation of the topography , the right expires 15 years from the time the topography was first recorded in a design document or the time when an article was first made to the design , whichever is the earlier . |
| 21 | Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ? |
| 22 | Interestingly , Parliament 's only out-gay MP , Labour 's Chris Smith , also raised the issue when the new Clause was first debated on the floor of the House of Commons a week later , on 15th December . |
| 23 | The United States Pomerene Act , provided that if the goods were delivered to a common carrier by their owner or by the owner 's agent , once an order bill of lading was issued , the goods could not be attached or levied upon , under an execution , unless the bill was first surrendered to the carrier , or its negotiation was enjoined . |
| 24 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
| 25 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 26 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 27 | It was first employed on the occasion of the Great Reform Bill in 1832 and when it was wheeled out again , in 1909 , Edward VII required an electoral mandate for its use . |
| 28 | He was first employed by the Cecils at Hatfield prior to his becoming arboriculturalist to George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , and then , in 1630 , ‘ Keeper of his Majesty 's Gardens , Vines and Silkworms ’ , being succeeded at his death in 1638 by his son , John . |
| 29 | The new F7 unit was first employed in the Renault 19 16V launched in Britain in March 1991 . |
| 30 | The depletion of the ozone layer was first noted over the Antarctic , and , more recently , over the Arctic . |