Example sentences of "first [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He elaborated the point he first made in the February that Gothic architecture expressed a spirit ‘ opposed to liberty and the true interests and prosperity of a Protestant country ’ . |
| 2 | The original village , first made an appearance in the public records in 1056 when it donated land for a monastery , but it was actually first formed in the foot hills in 641 by mountain folk escaping an invasion by the Rotaris . |
| 3 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
| 4 | The octamer sequence was first recognized in the histone H2B gene and in the heavy and kappa light chain immunoglobulin genes and later identified as a regulatory sequence motif for many other cellular and viral genes ( reviewed in [ 1 ] ) . |
| 5 | Jay had felt fleeting sexual desire when they first met in the corridor where she worked , a tumbledown rats ' nest in East London . |
| 6 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 7 | The Professional Aviation Jet Prop DC-3 from the Republic of South Africa ( marking the first time the RSA has ever displayed an aircraft at Farnborough ) employs the Schafer/Aero Modifications International design ( first flown in the US in August 1986 ) and they have been ‘ building ’ examples since 1991 . |
| 8 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 9 | Environmental auditing was first developed in the US in response to the increasing pressure of legislation and fear of expensive litigation . |
| 10 | Since the interwar period , when quota sampling was first developed in the United States , it has been refined to a high art by commercial research organisations in many countries . |
| 11 | Programme budgeting was first recommended in the US by the Hoover Commission in 1949 ( Report to Congress on Budget and Accounting ) . |
| 12 | Since first appearing in the pages of this magazine ( FACE 33 ) , the SAS campaign has developed enormously , and 1992 has proved to be the breakthrough year . |
| 13 | Toad , Ratty , Mole and Badger are making a comeback , eighty-five years after first appearing in the Wind in the Willows . |
| 14 | Indeed , although such characteristics are commonly thought to be the domain of animals and birds , the evidence shows that thermogenic regulation first occurred in the reptiles . |
| 15 | The condition that we now recognise as AIDS was first reported in the USA in 1981 . |
| 16 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 17 | Its little man-shaped creatures , first paraded in The Hobbit ( 1937 ) , hark back not just to Kipling but far beyond him to medieval romance . |
| 18 | The project to build a 1,000-MW station , was first considered in the mid-1970s , but frozen after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 . |
| 19 | The question of the necessity for Community action under Article 235 was first considered in the context of the Customs Union , in a judgment which illustrates the first of those approaches . |
| 20 | The steamy clouds of his breath were first caught in the light from above , then pulled slowly away in a draught from the same source . |
| 21 | by vigorous and confident campaigning Carter first succeeded in the Iowa caucuses and followed this by winning the New Hampshire primary of his party . |
| 22 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 23 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 24 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 25 | Needing to find precisely when their electrical axis first originated in the development of the animal , he began mapping the fields in progressively earlier stages of salamander embryogenesis and discovered that the electrical axis originated in the unfertilized egg , thus contradicting conventional biological and genetic theory . |
| 26 | The play , which was first presented in the West End in 1988 , may have been overtaken by events but in no way seems dated by this factor . |
| 27 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 28 | Massine 's brilliant use of descriptive and narrative gestures in The Three-Cornered Hat was a proper development of Fokine 's mimed dance and danced mime , first seen in The Firebird and Petrushka . |
| 29 | Seven three consecutive patients ( 40 men , 33 women ) with active inflammatory bowel disease ( median age 32.5 years ; ranges 14–81 ) were included in the study at admission or when first seen in the outpatient clinic . |
| 30 | Those images were first seen in the catechisms , Bibles , books of hours , and hymnals used to convert the Indians and direct their worship . |