Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The AMU Presidential Council , composed of the heads of the member states , was chaired in the first half of 1990 by President Ben Ali of Tunisia , who was succeeded at the end of June by Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who in turn was succeeded on Dec. 31 by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 32 | The nature of the ‘ causes ’ identified by the different approaches , in other words , reflected very clearly the way the enquiry was framed in the first place . |
| 33 | The strength of local and international protest was shown in the first week on January this year , when 2,000 protestors from the US , the UK and test sites in Kazakhstan and the Pacific joined with Shoshone representatives in a mass trespass onto the Nevada Site . |
| 34 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |
| 35 | Packed cell volume was measured in the first arterial or venous blood sample obtained , usually when establishing arterial access . |
| 36 | Erm the selection er er of er suppliers for the infra-red search and track w that was performed in the first instance by Eurofighter and the procurement organisations are the four Eurofighter partner companies make the checks on the potential suppliers in accordance with a schedule which we , the four governments , have provided to them . |
| 37 | The nature of the fascist impact in the East End of London was demonstrated in the first local elections of 1937 . |
| 38 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 39 | What with Becky Sieff crusading the country and a succession of charity dinners and film and theatre premieres , close on £300,000 was raised in the first half of 1939 . |
| 40 | It was derived in the first place from Goethe and Goethe 's Hellenist contemporaries ; and it was modified only by the conviction that the ailments which artists and thinkers of that period had identified in the Germany of their day were now more virulent than ever , while an additional threat was posed by the new diseases of mediocrity and the cult of " progress " ( often associated with politicking and liberalism ) , from which the age of Goethe had been relatively free . |
| 41 | The summer time was introduced in the first world war , do you remember that |
| 42 | However , reference to Figure 2.2 indicates that the BAT share price outperformed the market during the 1980s , although this outperformance was concentrated in the first half of the decade . |
| 43 | The correct word was included about 60% of the time , although it was found in the first position of the list of alternatives only 18% of the time . |
| 44 | The economy of the Netherlands Antilles , based upon oil refining , financial services and tourism , was boosted in the first quarter of 1990 by an increase of 6 per cent in the number of tourists compared with the same period of 1989 , which had shown a similar increase over the previous year . |
| 45 | Figure 4.7 shows how the formula-based money was distributed in the first year of the scheme . |
| 46 | The table below details specimen surrender values which would be applicable if the Bond was surrendered in the first five years , and are based on a monthly premium of £9 . |
| 47 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 48 | He was eliminated in the first round , coming fourth behind de Gaulle , Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet . |
| 49 | The intended new departure was signalled in the first episode with a move of house for Frank and Betty . |
| 50 | In the United States , by contrast , it was embodied in the First Amendment to the constitution : " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances . " |
| 51 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 52 | ( One of her brothers was killed in the first . ) |
| 53 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 54 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 55 | Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up . |
| 56 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 57 | One important objective of counselling was to improve communication within the family , which was achieved in the first session when the therapist took a supportive but firm approach and encouraged the patient to talk to her parents then . |
| 58 | A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more . |
| 59 | The Gaullist candidate , Chaban-Delmas , was beaten in the first round : thus ended the period ( 1958–74 ) when Gaullists alone had controlled the apparatus of state broadcasting . |
| 60 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |