Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Minimata mercury poisoning was diagnosed first in cats . |
| 2 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 3 | To transfer the first 5,626 papers that came to hand would mean ignoring the 8,907 other papers on which Paisley was placed first , and the system reasonably requires that the second preferences expressed on those papers should also be taken into account . |
| 4 | Chain mail was made first by coiling links around a pole and then fully constructed by interlinking . |
| 5 | Arizona was hit first and blew up when a bomb hit near No 2 turret exploding the magazines . |
| 6 | Notice in ( b ) pink was used first and then yellow and finally pale viridian . |
| 7 | A pilot study was undertaken first to identify and locate potential users who resided in the West Midlands and secondly to establish the employment and expenditure impacts of the Marina , Marina-related developments and of boat owners upon the local economy . |
| 8 | When Captain Owen commissioned Leven , a ship-sloop , and the brig Barracouta in 1821 for his survey of the east coast of Africa , Vidal was appointed first lieutenant in Leven . |
| 9 | His slender figure was plunged first into light then into shadow as he passed before the slitted windows . |
| 10 | Cos I know it was and a Yes the other side was built first too |
| 11 | The work was supervised first by Josef Kranner , then from 1871–99 by Josef Mocker , the Bohemian Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 12 | A central dish of salad was brought first , followed by fresh seafood and grilled mero with slices of lemon , tomato and garlic and two tender chunks of swordfish . |
| 13 | The test was tried first on the horse who was regarded as having the lowest intelligence : a mare who lived around the family home . |
| 14 | Vladimir Meciar ( PAV ) , Interior Minister in the outgoing Slovak government , was appointed Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on June 27 ; Carnogursky was appointed First Deputy Premier . |
| 15 | Topaz was pulled first one way then the other by dressmakers . |
| 16 | An example is the string of demes from Tribe Five , Akamantis , which run Thorikos-Kephale-Prospalta-Sphettos and thence to the city ; the section from Thomkos to Sphettos is along an arterial road , which by Kleisthenes ' dispositions was enclosed first within the coastal , then within the in land trittys of Akamantis . |
| 17 | In the first condition of the experiment the laterally displaced stimulus was presented first followed by the central stimulus second . |
| 18 | Five is to the north of Killinghall and you 'll see from the table attached , table two that er prior to the opening of the phase one of the bypasses , it was opened in two phases between the A sixty one and the six six one in the southern half was opened first . |
| 19 | This philosophy was developed first in the seventeenth century and it has become increasingly influential ever since . |
| 20 | ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards . |
| 21 | The ending of the War was marked first of all by an extra week 's holiday , but plans were in hand for a more permanent reminder of the " war to end all wars " . |
| 22 | Acid deposition is not a new problem : for example , the term ‘ acid rain' was used first by Robert Angus Smith in 1872 to describe the polluted air of Manchester , England , which damaged vegetation , bleached the colours of fabrics and corroded metallic surfaces . |
| 23 | Gennady Burbulis was named first Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 24 | The vacancy was filled first by the Rev. H. Cottam , Rector of St. Mary 's , Crumpsall , who knew the school well , having been one of the Annual Examiners and having stood in during a previous illness , of Hamilton 's in 1875 . |
| 25 | Communal overexploitation was averted first because of inter-personal face-to-face relationships involved in the design and implementation of forest preservation by a small community where enforcement and the meting out of punishments was a matter for the forest users themselves ; second , because of the existence of a special interest group ( carpenters ) ; and third , the shared and fierce desire of the people to remain as independent of outside influence and control as possible ( p. 434 ) . |
| 26 | The initiative was taken first in relation to young children , and an almost universal policy was adopted to prevent the reception into residential care of young children under five . |
| 27 | The community charge was introduced first in Scotland , and was brought in in England and Wales in 1990 . |
| 28 | The clean outline of the rectangular Central Court was established first and the sanctuary suites aggregated round it . |
| 29 | The back was built first . |
| 30 | A normal bowel pattern was accomplished first then toilet training was restarted . |