Example sentences of "first [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lectures on Milton were first given in the beautiful fifteenth-century Divinity Schools , underneath the Bodleian Library . |
| 2 | The contrary view , that all embryos existed from the beginning of the world , was first formulated in the 1690s by , among others , Malebranche in France and Swammerdam in the Netherlands . |
| 3 | The AEC Treaty was signed on June 3 ( the concept of an economic community having been first formulated in the 1968 Declaration of Algiers ) . |
| 4 | Vehicles for repair were first placed in the initial examination bay , this activity occupying three rows in the top paint shop . |
| 5 | Operation Resurrection , as it was called , was first mooted in the immediate aftermath of 13 May . |
| 6 | First to go in the two-horse jump-off , he was able to claim his first ever Wembley victory after Michael Whitaker had 12 faults on another stallion , Next Didi . |
| 7 | As first to go in the nine-horse jump-off , Halliday had seemed to be handicapped by the draw . |
| 8 | When first developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , it was designed — so it could be argued — to neutralize music 's potential political power , bracket off its critical threat in a ‘ utopian ’ enclave and confine negation to individual statement . |
| 9 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 10 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 11 | Scientists may have made a breakthrough in the treatment of breast cancer using drugs first developed in the nineteen sixties . |
| 12 | This last point is politically most important for Engels since he uses it to show how the development of the State implies the destruction of the egalitarian and communally-based gens : a proof of the Marxist view of the State as fundamentally a class institution , a view first developed in The German Ideology . |
| 13 | According to this view , which was first developed in the 1930s , economic progress is marked by the successive growth and decline of the three sectors of the economy . |
| 14 | Matrix management first developed in the 1950s in the USA in the aerospace industry . |
| 15 | Corrugated shutters supposed to cover the unsightly skips in their cubby hole probably have n't been pulled down since the block was first occupied in the 1960s . |
| 16 | A truth of modern warfare , which was first disclosed in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904–5 ) , had been underscored though leaders on neither side fully comprehended it as yet ; defensive weaponry was more than a match for charging infantry . |
| 17 | To avoid this difficulty we can first pivot in the objective row and the unbounded ( s 1 ) column . |
| 18 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 19 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 20 | Finally , it should be noted that s.14 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 , restating a rule first contained in the 1958 Act , provides that no provision in legislation prior to 1958 should be taken as ousting the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court , thus making clear the Government 's intention that all statutory tribunals should be subject to this jurisdiction regardless of whether other remedies are provided . |
| 21 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 22 | The idea of road pricing first surfaced in the early Sixties . |
| 23 | When they first appear in the early Ordovician the majority of nautiloid shells are straight or slightly curved ; they are ‘ unwound ’ forms . |
| 24 | For male workers , however , employment was rapidly increasing in the areas of electrical appliances , transportation and furniture which first appear in the 1965 census as well as metal products and some of the areas traditionally open to women — chemicals , paper and rubber ( Chinchilla 1977 ) . |
| 25 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 26 | The first bonding systems for dentine that were reproducible enough to eliminate the need for mechanically retentive cavities were first seen in the late 1970s . |
| 27 | She had the face I had first seen in the music-room door : both amused and conspiratorial , and now appealing as well . |
| 28 | Current Dumping is Quad 's nickname for a form of feed-forward correction developed for and first seen in the 405 which eliminates the need for adjustable components in the circuit . |
| 29 | Their story was first revealed in The Northern Echo earlier this year , but at the time the couple wanted to remain anonymous . |
| 30 | BREAD made from spelt , a type of grain first grown in the late Stone Age , is poised to become a new ‘ health-food ’ , a miller of organic flour forecast yesterday . |