Example sentences of "[noun sg] first [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That peal of exile first heard in Hand in Glove still rings true in moments on Viva Hate ! and no doubt always will , no matter what follows , in the same way that traces of wantonness persist in Jagger 's voice , beneath all the mannered overlay of time . |
| 2 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 3 | He told her of Christie 's reaction when the Mousetrap first went on stage . |
| 4 | The archaeological evidence suggests that silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the third millennium B.C. It was not until metallurgy had been carried to a relatively advanced level of sophistication that the production of silver in any quantity became practicable . |
| 5 | AIDS first came to light in the USA in 1981 when the Centers for Disease Control , which monitor health data from local health departments , noticed a marked increase in a number of unusual infections , particularly amongst gay men . |
| 6 | Figure 8.1 repeats the cross-tabulation of class background and a collapsed version of school type first shown in figure 7.8 ; the full raw frequencies have been included as they will be helpful in the following discussion . |
| 7 | When a three- or four-year-old child first comes to school , his real concern could almost be said to be his own identity . |
| 8 | When the Single European Act first came into force , they took exception to a number of Commission proposals put forward as single market measures under Article 100A of the EEC Treaty , and thus capable of being adopted by qualified majority in the Council . |
| 9 | Terry Carlin , Northern Ireland officer of the ICTU , said ‘ The ICTU first called for legislation to outlaw discrimination in employment in 1966 and had been actively involved ever since in the issue of promoting equality of opportunity . |
| 10 | Another , The Baking of an English Loaf , 1969 , an article first published in Queen , December 4th 1968 , was eventually incorporated , much rewritten , in my English Bread and Yeast Cookery , Allen Lane 1977 . |
| 11 | • A version of this article first appeared in Caterer & Hotelkeeper 's sister publication Baking Update . |
| 12 | Message Queue Interface first came to light in IBM 's Network Blueprint announcements last year ( CI No 1,901 ) as one of a clutch of network interfaces supported within its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking architecture . |
| 13 | " This Meeting consider themselves authorised to regulate the practice to be hereafter adopted in Smithies — and direct now that he who comes to the smithy first prepared for work shall have preference in finishing all his work of every kind before any other can pretend to interfere . " |
| 14 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 15 | ‘ Japanese players are still hunting for the ultimate barcode 18 months after the game first went on sale . |
| 16 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 17 | The proposal form should be checked to see if the Policyholder disclosed the illness/injury or if the complaint first occurred after inception of the policy , did the Policyholder disclose this at the appropriate renewal date . |
| 18 | A method first used for lampbrush chromosomes has been subsequently adapted for visualization of cellular organelles and cytoskeletons ( 46 ) using , for example , antibodies to actin ( 46 ) , tubulin ( 41 ) , microtubule organizing centres ( 47 ) , nuclear matrix lamins ( 48 ) , clathrin and lysosomes ( 48 ) . |
| 19 | In particular , the effect of s56(4) is very wide since this defines antecedent negotiations to include : ( 4 ) For the purposes of this Act , antecedent negotiations shall be taken to begin when the negotiator and the debtor or hirer first enter into communication ( including communication by advertisement ) , and to include any representations made by the negotiator to the debtor or hirer and any other dealings between them . |
| 20 | Wattana first came in contact with the Davises and Jimmy Whites of the snooker world when he was 16 , the year that a Chester club owner , Harry Wau , was on holiday in Bangkok and introduced himself to local snooker officials . |
| 21 | When warning coloration first appeared in evolution , it would have been a rare , minority characteristic . |
| 22 | The play first went on stage at Nottingham and Agatha Christie was there . |
| 23 | Although the PCW affair first came to light nearly nine years ago it remains the single largest City controversy on record . |
| 24 | BSB itself went into partnership with the BBC to negotiate jointly with the Football Association for exclusive rights to England football and FA Cup matches , and Sky first got into bed with BBC to win exclusive British rights to the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno world heavyweight title fight . |
| 25 | The novel first appeared in serialization in 1851 and was then published as a book . |
| 26 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 27 | Space first came into existence with the Big Bang . |
| 28 | Sometimes it rained , but mainly the sun shone on the army first summoned into existence , without the impact of commercial pop , back at the Albert Hall in 1965 , and the Roundhouse in the cold October of 1966 . |
| 29 | The church first applied for planning permission to build houses on the site in 1988 , but because the reverend Sawyer had the right to object , nothing came of it . |
| 30 | Birch 's work on where jobs were being generated in the US economy stirred up considerable interest around the time of the 1979 election in Britain when Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government first came to power . |