Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The experimental subjects acquired the CR only slowly when trained in context A , the context in which the light had been presented during the first stage of habituation training . |
| 32 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 33 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 34 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 35 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 36 | Graham Rowell was only concerned with how he was going to treat a condition or an injury ; he said it was n't his job to worry about how it could have been prevented in the first place . ’ |
| 37 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 38 | MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round . |
| 39 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 40 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 41 | The second round of voting on May 8 allocated most of the 134 seats which had not been decided in the first round [ see p. 38887 ] , and confirmed the electoral victory of supporters of President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani . |
| 42 | His ‘ fascist ’ ideas had first been shaped by the First World War , which he felt Britain should not have entered . |
| 43 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 44 | On the date when delivery should have been made under the first contract , the market price was 70s . |
| 45 | But , by transforming , progress has also been made towards the first three goals : the batches are more symmetrical and bell-shaped , and some of the outliers in the original batch were not really unusual values , but merely a product of the upward straggle of the raw numbers . |
| 46 | I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission . |
| 47 | THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club . |
| 48 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 49 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 50 | In spite of this handful of ‘ collaborators ’ , it was nevertheless inevitable that the majority of those serving in the Imperial household should be drawn from among the families which had been connected with the First Empire . |
| 51 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 52 | If the Gospel was written by the John Mark who is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles , then it must have been written in the first generation of the Christian Church , between 35 and 75 AD . |
| 53 | By pressing actively for the payment of wages monthly instead of weekly , they have supported and contributed to the great growth or worker banking in those countries , where it has been seen as a first step to other ‘ staff status ’ privileges . |
| 54 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
| 55 | The Railway 's annual spring Enthusiasts ' Weekend — normally held two weeks before Easter — has been moved for the first time in its 20-year history . |
| 56 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 57 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 58 | The East Anglians , who are the form team among the top eight , had been outplayed in the first half , when Wolves had half a dozen shots on goal and several others narrowly off target . |
| 59 | In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) . |
| 60 | The windows have been cleaned for the first time in a year , and what with my contact lenses ( which I 've had since Christmas ) , the view is much improved . |