Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 32 | Along with the technology came the new scientific breed of brewers , and the skills of brewing chemists , administrators and engineers were harnessed for the first time . |
| 33 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 34 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 35 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 36 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 37 | ‘ I had no regrets about missing the tour , ’ Cranmer explains , ‘ as both the centres were injured in the first two matches . |
| 38 | A BOTTLE of sherry and flowers were presented to the first resident of a new nursing home which opened this week . |
| 39 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 40 | So ‘ Rasta ’ , ‘ Rusty ’ and ‘ Camley ’ featured in the first Roman Candle Their adventures were related in the first person , so giving a ‘ hume ’ character to the otherwise mute and very much stuffed fluffy playthings . |
| 41 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 42 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 43 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 44 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 45 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 46 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 47 | More than 2.7 million new houses were built in the first ten years of nationalisation , and 1954 , the peak year of Macmillan 's housing drive , saw 354000 completed . |
| 48 | In tax matters the Empire was indeed surprisingly decentralised , with taxes levied exclusively by the states until 1914 when imperial taxes were imposed for the first time . |
| 49 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 50 | Last year foxes were unusually abundant and 27 were shot during the first week of lambing . |
| 51 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 52 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 53 | It was also in 1883 , amidst considerable alarm about the increasing use of firearms by burglars , that the London police were armed for the first time in their history . |
| 54 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 55 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 56 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 57 | The research projects were commissioned within the first phase of this initiative . |
| 58 | In 1966 , solid state computers , developed under the direction of Drs Hanzo Omi and Toshio Ikeda , were exported for the first time . |
| 59 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 60 | The first one is the existing arrangements on nursing home care , really reviewing the process , and members will recognize that the arrangements that were agreed in the first agreement with Health Authority related to gaining permission from the Health Authority before our placing nursing homes . |