Example sentences of "was [verb] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edrophonium was given to the first 21 patients referred with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 2 | The second was added to the first , over the cheek and lower jaw , to give a further stage of disintegration . |
| 3 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 4 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |