Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1990 , the then New Zealand Minister for Tourism and Disarmament and Arms Control , Fran Wilde , visited Fiji in the first direct contact between the two countries since the coups of 1987 . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 3 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 4 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 5 | It was Mr Duggan 's vision that secured Eurovision in the first place for Millstreet , against the odds . |
| 6 | Many of these buildings which survive are in northern France and suffered bombardment in the First World War , but all are well restored to the original design . |
| 7 | Immediately afterwards , during the first Test , Canterbury met ND in the first of two top-of-the-table clashes within a fortnight . |
| 8 | Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place . |
| 9 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 10 | Announcing half time results yesterday , the food retailer said it spent £384m in the first half of the year improving the quality and efficiency of the business . |
| 11 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
| 12 | ‘ And do n't forget , you were the one who contacted Mike in the first place . |
| 13 | In other words , almost all of the informants perceived incoherence in the first paragraph , when mapping the discourse model of the text world onto their own knowledge of the real world . |
| 14 | There were , I found myself thinking , a hell of a lot of people called Roger in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 15 | The software included a second k-D matrix which recorded errors in the first matrix . |
| 16 | NatWest Bancorp lost $140m in the first nine months of 1990 , mainly because of dud property loans . |
| 17 | The EC commissioner for external affairs , Frans Andriessen , who took part in the first stage of the negotiations in New York last Friday , will report on progress to Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg today . |
| 18 | Ninety-two competitors took part in the first walk on Whit Monday the 1st June 1903 , one of the first all-amateur walking events to be held in England . |
| 19 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 20 | And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million . |
| 21 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 22 | ‘ We 've learned a lot since Belfast , ’ said Liubinskas who spent a year as assistant manager of AC Milan , favourites to win the European Cup with a victory over Marseille , the multi-talented French side which eliminated Glentoran in the first round . |
| 23 | John Bond 's side never got a look in as Quakers took command in the first half hour . |
| 24 | Taking everything together , I strongly suggest that the idea that an economic miracle took place in the first six Thatcher years is a very dangerous myth . |
| 25 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 26 | The first major privatization debate ( as we would now call it ) in this country took place in the first decade of this century . |
| 27 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 28 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 29 | She represented Austria in the first European Women 's Bridge Championship of 1935 ( winning it , and the next in 1936 ) . |
| 30 | They fell 15% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity . |