Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 2 | The New Orleans sequences were filmed first , even before Fonda , Hopper and screenwriter Terry Southern had finished writing . |
| 3 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 4 | He was confident that he , in the town , could resist any efforts of Dunbar in the castle to prevail against them — that is , providing the castle 's cannon and mangonels were removed first and transferred to the town 's walls and bastions , particularly to the port area . |
| 5 | A few local lines were built first , and then a larger company stepped in with a grand strategy to create a trunk route and compete for valuable traffic . |
| 6 | Mr Kerswell explained firms were asked first and foremost to teach trainees a skill , not to expect them to be productive . |
| 7 | Baynton 's religious leanings were attested first in 1532 , in a friendly correspondence with Hugh Latimer [ q.v. ] , and finally in 1546 , when John Hooper [ q.v. ] mourned him as one of the ‘ chief upholders of the gospel ’ . |
| 8 | These differences were caused first by ice sheets and later by rivers . |
| 9 | Yesterday councillors on Hammersmith and Fulham council 's social services committee said they needed to know full details of the case , but that the law required a child 's interests were put first . |
| 10 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 11 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 12 | His drawings were sold first by Greenwood , auctioneer of Leicester Square , on 16 February 1787 and seven days following . |
| 13 | It should be made clear both that ( A + B ) does not need to add up to 100 — it is an unfortunate chance that the 80/20 or 90/10 ‘ rules ’ are so well known — and that access frequency loading will only be of benefit when A is less than B. If A were greater than B , meaning that the less active records were loaded first , file access times would be poorer than those of randomly loaded files ! |
| 14 | ‘ Scottish medieval churches were intended first and foremost as the setting for elaborate sung services , and without some appreciation of the music of those services any mental reconstruction of the church as it once was is incomplete , ’ says Richard Fawcett , Principle Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 15 | Oh no they got no whisky but they got er Eversons be when the rocks were started first when the commissioners started the rocks first the Bell rock was the first . |