Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] in the first " in BNC.
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1 | He was Jacob Hart , 12 , who was responsible for Hook , Stephen Spielberg 's £65 million modern Peter Pan story , being written in the first place . |
2 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
3 | And successful treatment is prolonging the lives of affected people — but not dealing with the causes or preventing them being affected in the first place . |
4 | The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad . |
5 | However , in April 1990 a government statement revealed that an intensified campaign against the guerrillas had led to 10 rocket attacks being foiled and five members of the Islamic Jihad organization being arrested in the first three months of the year . |
6 | As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means . |
7 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
8 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
9 | Phase 3 of BRAC 's Oral Therapy Extension Programme started in October 1986 and ended in October 1990 , with the unsuccessful trial of the rice-salt solution ( described in Chapter 7 ) being conducted in the first half of 1987 . |
10 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round . |