Example sentences of "was first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fr Jin was first arrested in the late 1950s , when many Catholics were detained for proclaiming their loyalty to the Vatican . |
| 2 | An American work on the same lines was first published in 1926 by Helen Gardner . |
| 3 | One parallel to the scope of Janson 's book on Western art , Sherman Lee 's A History of Far Eastern Art , was first published in 1964 . |
| 4 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 5 | Two other contemporary writers whose work was first performed by the English Stage Company are Nigel Williams , author of Sugar n' Spice and Paul Kember , author of Not Quite Jerusalem ( which has recently been filmed ) . |
| 6 | I have n't yet mentioned the development of the Theatre of the Absurd , which has been a strong force in European drama since Alfred Jarry 's Ubu Roi was first performed in 1896 . |
| 7 | 1975 , ( the date the play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre ) . |
| 8 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The idea for such an ambitious ( but surprisingly nightmare-free ) project was first mooted in 1989 when Professor Dai came to Norwich to attend a post-graduate degree course in tourism . |
| 10 | This natural phenomenon has forced human occupation , by all races since Canada was first inhabited , not just her French colonisation in the 16th century , into its disparate parts and localities , a situation further exacerbated by the Appalachians to the east and the Cordilleras to the west . |
| 11 | Leonard was but 21 when it was first published , though the poems were culled from his output from 15 to 20 years of age , according to an interview he gave to Andrew Tyler of Disc in 1972 . |
| 12 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 13 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 14 | The P300 was first described in 1965 by Sutton . |
| 15 | • This review was first published in Turning Points , and the book is available from the Wood Turning Centre , PO Box 25706 , Philadelphia , PA 19144 , USA ; cost $45 . |
| 16 | The carving machine was first developed in 1845 by T. Jordan . |
| 17 | This made it possible to group together different types of service ( InterCity 's identity was first established on this basis ) and look at their costs and revenues in a sensible manner . |
| 18 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
| 19 | In 1984 , when the InterCity Charter Unit was first set up , it had at its disposal some twenty sets of Mk 1 stock — principally second-class tourist open vehicles — but nothing which could credibly be described as suitable for the VIP trains it was seeking to introduce . |
| 20 | It was first noted in Ballet Imperial ( 1941 ) when every time a scale-like passage in the second movement of Tchaikovsky 's Piano Concerto No. 2 is played , the three soloists link hands to make two arches through which the corps de ballet ‘ ran round the houses ’ ( Edwin Evans ) . |
| 21 | The layout of a story ballet or ballet d'action was first conceived by John Weaver in 1717 when he did away with actors and/or singers to tell the story . |
| 22 | This was first apparent in The Quest ( 1943 ) where the arabesques danced in many ways became the movement through which Una ( danced by Margot Fonteyn ) expressed the emotions aroused when she is assailed by the four false Knights and then her joy when rescued by St. George . |
| 23 | The classical style with its particular look and feeling was first described by Pythagoras ( 5th century BC ) : ‘ It represents the subtle equilibrium of outline and axis , by the perfection of its symmetry of balance within a composition . ’ |
| 24 | This acceptance of the usual forms of court etiquette was first developed in a particular social environment , and it is important to comply with it if a proper atmosphere is to be established for the action which is to take place . |
| 25 | This style was first created by Taglioni for his daughter Marie . |
| 26 | This particularly subtle quiver of the leg to express newly aroused emotion was first noticed in Ashton 's The Two Pigeons when the Young Girl and her friends pretend to strut around like pigeons . |
| 27 | It was first made by Dauberval when staging La Fille Mal Gardée . |
| 28 | Maris Otter was first listed as an approved variety by the Barley Committee of the Institute of Brewing 26 years ago and is still used by brewers such as Youngs , Brakspear and Eldridge Pope . |
| 29 | Everybody knows that porter was first brewed , according to legend , by Ralph Harwood of the Bell brewhouse in Shoreditch in 1722 . |
| 30 | Docklands historians say it was first shipped out to thirsty expats in the Far East from Hodgson 's brewery in Bow in 1734 . |