Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 2 | A BOTTLE of sherry and flowers were presented to the first resident of a new nursing home which opened this week . |
| 3 | Some two hundred periti were summoned to the first session , but by April 1963 the number had reached 348 . |
| 4 | The absorbance versus temperature data were converted to the first derivative and the melting temperature was defined as the temperature at which the derivative curve attained its maximum value . |
| 5 | In 1920 they were promoted to the First Division and got to their first Cup final , against Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge , where they were beaten 1–0 . |
| 6 | Edrophonium was given to the first 21 patients referred with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 7 | The second was added to the first , over the cheek and lower jaw , to give a further stage of disintegration . |
| 8 | He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street . |
| 9 | The label ‘ Angry Young Men ’ , a term originally used to describe John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger , was extended to the first novels of Kingsley Amis , John Wain , and Colin Wilson . |
| 10 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 11 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 12 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 13 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |