Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 2 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 3 | Ehrlichman and Weinberger criticise the emphasis that has been placed on the first eye movements occurring after a question has been asked and the consequent ignoring of movements which occur prior to or during presentation of a particular item . |
| 4 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 5 | It was almost 2215 , and 300 cases had been treated on the first day . |
| 6 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 7 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 8 | On the second visit Mr. Burgess was given instructions different from those he had been given on the first visit . |
| 9 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 10 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 12 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 13 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 14 | Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats . |
| 15 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 16 | The new items adopt a structured problem-based approach to the many different marital difficulties that people face , and information on the cultural and religious framework , which may affect options open to ethnic minority clients , has been included for the first time . |
| 17 | It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it . |
| 18 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 19 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 20 | Merseyside duo Jamie Cassidy ( Liverpool ) and David Thompson ( Wirral ) have been picked for the first England boys under 15s national trial at the Lilleshall Sports Centre next weekend . |
| 21 | Electric lighting and heating have been installed for the first time , but all fittings have been concealed as much as possible and all the original oil lamps and 19th century pews have been retained . |
| 22 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 23 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 24 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 25 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 26 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 27 | Jitters had been wounded in the first landing , in the shoulder . |
| 28 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 29 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 30 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |