Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP .
2 As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily :
3 This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four !
4 Sadly , the mill and house were destroyed by fire in 1933 , but from these ashes and the insurance money a modern mill was built incorporating the first Californian press imported into the country .
5 A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B .
6 Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum .
7 The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted .
8 Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England .
9 When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing .
10 The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected .
11 The presidium and committees were to be formed by December , and it was hoped to hold the first session of the Baltic Assembly by January 1992 .
12 This position was confirmed by the death of Yeats in 1939 , and it was an apt image of succession that Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture at Dublin in June 1940 .
13 Fuad Masum , a member of the political bureau of the PUK , was asked to form the first government .
14 In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair .
15 Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own .
16 Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe .
17 A working group , with representatives of all the republics concerned , was established to prepare a first draft .
18 A turnout of at least 40 per cent was required to make a first round vote valid , but on Sept. 30 this threshold was not met in the majority of constituencies ( turnout nationwide was only 36 per cent ) , necessitating a second ballot for more than 80 per cent of council seats .
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