Example sentences of "first [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 2 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 3 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 5 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 6 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 7 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 8 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 9 | In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s . |