Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the term was first used funboard has been used to describe any board with a foot strap on it . |
| 2 | In the case in which the defect in the law was first exposed , Marsh v. Arscot the defendant who was drunk began using a stream of abusive language directed at the policemen who were investigating his suspicious presence in a car park . |
| 3 | Seawright was first suspended and , when he failed to withdraw his remarks and apologize , was expelled from the Party . |
| 4 | It was the outsider when ground share was first muted , but a super-league home for Edinburgh football in the west of the city , handy for the motorways and the bypass might make sense , might it not ? 's the number to dial . |
| 5 | Based on the results of these contamination studies ( Fig 1 ) , before each endoscopy and the collection of gastric juice , residual cleaning fluid in the scope was first disposed of and then two 5 ml ultrapure acidified water samples were similarly collected and discarded . |
| 6 | How many people have been invited to stand up and be counted long after this phrase was first used ? |
| 7 | the first reprint should of occurred twenty one months after the brochure was first printed and the second reprint about twelve months later |
| 8 | When the college policy and the sub-committee was first constituted , I was enthusiastic — teeth at last ! |
| 9 | This favourable turn was first evident in Wales , and then in the Northern Region , and was largely due to special measures for the worst-hit steel closure areas . |
| 10 | Patients M24 , M25 , and M26 were inpatients when the epidemic strain was first cultured from their sputum . |
| 11 | The Arrows moved out when the base was first due to close nine years ago . |
| 12 | In France the new technique was first used , by copying from a captured British vessel , in 1778 . |
| 13 | Ltd. , a powerful group controlling many tramway systems throughout the country , were thwarted by an injunction from obtaining control of the Croydon Tramway Co. at the turn of the century when electrification was first proposed . |
| 14 | Once its position as such authorised representative was first suspended , and then terminated , Winchester was unable to conduct any investment business . |
| 15 | Staff were made redundant , the Secretary 's stipend withdrawn and the Bond interest was first unpaid , then waived . |
| 16 | Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia . |
| 17 | For example the gradual deterioration often associated with deafness will make it impossible to determine the point at which the required criterion of deafness was first satisfied . |