Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] first [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the confusion following Belgium 's partial withdrawal from its colony , the UN force was at first given the foolish order not to shoot unless attacked . |
| 2 | As we have seen , the stimulus given to the economy by Emancipation was at first limited . |
| 3 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 4 | Coleridge 's Somerset household was at first intended to have a touch of Pantisocratic inclusiveness . |
| 5 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 6 | When the Wolof children were asked to put together the pictures or objects in an array that were most alike and to give their reasons , the question was at first put in the form ‘ Why do you say ( or think ) that these are alike ? ’ . |
| 7 | At the local level , sanitary reform was at first hampered by the chaotic diversity of different local bodies ( Flinn 1969 ) . |
| 8 | Despite her discovery of the simpler B pattern , Franklin 's attention was at first directed to the more crystalline A form ; but by March 1953 she had carried the quantitive analysis of the B form patterns to the point where the paths of the backbone chains were determined , and she wrote up her work in a typescript dated 17 March — one day before news of the Watson and Crick structure reached King 's . |
| 9 | The tramway was at first operated by horses which were stabled at the rear of the present Ashby 's butchers shop . |
| 10 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 11 | There were , however , two new fields of research ; galvanism ( as use of electrical current was at first termed ) and mesmerism . |
| 12 | Although the tunnel was at first rejected on the grounds of cost , eventually in 1872 the Severn Tunnel Bill was passed by Parliament and construction began the following year . |
| 13 | The Oregon combination of technical expert opinion and public participation was at first seized on with enthusiasm by many NHS managers as a means of legitimising rationing decisions . |
| 14 | Loaded as it was with connotations of the body and pleasure — analogous to homosexuals in the United Kingdom , cast as out-groups , as bogeymen by the dominant culture , but attempting to fashion their own , necessarily coded , meanings rock 'n' roll was at first tolerated , because of its economic attractiveness , and then actively suppressed . |
| 15 | The new church was at first served from the cathedral . |
| 16 | It appealed directly to aristocratic sporting interests , and the Zoological Gardens in Regent 's Park were at first restricted to members and their guests . |
| 17 | Its use in the liturgy was at first opposed by the papacy , but , following the Council of Split in 1079 , both the Old Church Slavonic language and the glagolitic script were permitted to exist in central Dalmatia . |
| 18 | The company was at first commanded by a Captain Short , and later by Major H.M. Williams , who was also on the staff of the LNWR Carriage Department . |
| 19 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 20 | But despite Darwin 's efforts , evolutionism was at first absorbed into the search for a universal order . |
| 21 | The date for the election was at first announced for November 26 . |
| 22 | A decision was at first postponed but permission was granted later in the year . |
| 23 | The Queen Mother was at first expected to stay at her London home , Clarence House , but is now scheduled to attend . |
| 24 | Quite clearly , as costs were four times direct revenue , 10 per cent ( for example ) saving in costs had much more effect on the balance than did a potential 20 per cent increase in revenue , so energy was at first concentrated on the cost base . |