Example sentences of "was first [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 4 | Sir James was first detected on the Grandmet share register earlier this year . |
| 5 | The helix-loop-helix motif ( HLH ) is found in a variety of dimeric eukaryotic transcription factors and , as the name indicates , it was first characterized on the basis of two amphipathic α-helices connected by a loop . |
| 6 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 7 | There was serious foreign interest in Esselte 's publishing division when it was first put on the market early in 1990 , and Hachette is known to have been in negotiation before an agreement with Liber was finally concluded . |
| 8 | Now er when I w went on the council , o of course I was first put on the parks and recreation committee . |