Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breadth of the audi alteram partem principle was limited in the first half of this century . |
| 2 | He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class . |
| 3 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 4 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
| 5 | In addressing this issue , Bentham foreshadowed , inter alia , both the work on orthodox organisation and management theory which was developed in the first three decades of this century ( Hume , 1981 p 6 ) and that on space planning which has followed ( Lipman et al , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | As was explained in the first chapter , it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go . |
| 7 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 8 | Clearly , this will be related in some degree to the increase in the number of people owning and driving cars which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 9 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 10 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 11 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 12 | But Jolosa was booked in the first half for kicking goalie Mark Davies . |
| 13 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 14 | Erm , just to remind you , or to draw to your attention , erm , ladies and gentlemen , the fact that the report erm , was considered in the first instance , by your community care advisory sub-committee in September , and subsequently by the joint consultative committee in November . |
| 15 | In the redrawn footnote to section 7(5) in Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 123rd ed. , the editors refer to this authority , but do not repeat the view which was contained in the first section of the footnote in the earlier editions . |
| 16 | This figure was exceeded in the first quarter of the year alone when a Rbs31,000 million deficit was recorded . |
| 17 | Tenterden Station was featured in the first television series and although shown over two years ago the railway still receives numerous visitors on ‘ Darling Buds Country ’ coach tours . |
| 18 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 19 | Rother 's woes were further compounded when Richard Whitmore Jones was injured in the first game and took no further part in the match . |
| 20 | Natalia Zvereva was defeated in the first round for the seventh time this year when the American Marianne Werdel beat the eighth seed from the Soviet Union 6-2 , 6-3 in the Chicago tournament . |
| 21 | The only candidate who totally rejected the proposals , the right-wing businessman Paschal Paschalides , was defeated in the first round , which Mr Vassiliou won with 44.15 per cent of the vote . |
| 22 | This was also our experience in one patient in whom ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ was seen in the first transplant at 20 weeks and progressed to require retransplantation at 32 weeks . |
| 23 | This was seen in the first five patients treated , by serial cholangiographies through indwelling nasobiliary catheters . |
| 24 | The main damage was done in the first twelve months , when GDP fell by 3 per cent , industrial production by 9 per cent , and unemployment doubled to 2.5 million . |
| 25 | The specific effect of using a colon instead of a semicolon is to suggest that what comes next is a more specific example , or an explanation , of what was said in the first sentence . |
| 26 | After trials in the pilot schools ( see below ) the following form of identification was adopted in the first question in part one : |
| 27 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 28 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 29 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 30 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |