Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , where Hamlet was given its first performance . |
| 2 | However , on May 29 , 1991 , the draft constitution was given its first reading by the Grand National Assembly . |
| 3 | The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly . |
| 4 | The strategy was given its first airing two days after the Danish vote at a meeting of the Council in Oslo on 4 June , when it was agreed to proceed with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty while giving time to the Danes to resolve their problems . |
| 5 | Dustin was given his first chance to be in pictures . |
| 6 | The moment she had settled to this , Peter was given his first parish , a little parish in a country town to the south of Bristol . |
| 7 | But I was married with a baby then , and , in 1949 , this was considered my first duty . |
| 8 | Sólnes was appointed its first minister . |
| 9 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 10 | At the interval I was allowed my first glass of champagne . |
| 11 | The Russian Congress of People 's Deputies resolved to this effect on 12 June ; in a separate development a Russian Communist Party was established on 21 June and Ivan Polozkov , a relatively conservative party leader from Krasnodar , was elected its first secretary . |
| 12 | In 1899 her paper on the ‘ Hissing of the Electric Arc ’ , read before the Institution of Electrical Engineers , was awarded a premium , and two days later she was elected its first woman member . |
| 13 | When the first girl was engaged their first encounter was in a narrow passage . |