Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 61 | Whilst this process may , for this model , take up to 20 iterations to achieve an acceptable assembly from a disjointed starting point , once an association has been accomplished for the first time and , if only small disturbances are imposed , re-association may be accomplished in as few as three attempts . |
| 62 | Before departure a prize of 10,000 maravedis had been promised to the first man to sight the New World . |
| 63 | A prize of 10,000 Spanish coins had been promised to the first man to see land and he even claimed this . |
| 64 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 65 | If it was , then the theatre score could just as easily have been copied for the first run as for the revival . |
| 66 | Characters have been copied from the first field to the second , until a word mark ( here in the source field ) is encountered . |
| 67 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 68 | Evidence collected by a new computer-controlled water monitoring and sampling device developed by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has been used for the first time to prosecute a company for polluting a waterway . |
| 69 | In the intervening year , nothing has been done to right the wrongs of the decade , so what profit has been gleaned in the first year of the new leadership of the Conservative party ? |
| 70 | Wolfgang had begun work on an operatic version of Beaumarchais ' controversial play Le Mariage de Figaro , which had been performed for the first time in Paris the year before . |
| 71 | Gastric acid has been shown during the first hour of life in both term and preterm infants of more than 32 weeks gestation . |
| 72 | In the first few years of marriage , before the decision to have a baby is made , reparative work is about intimate pairing and what was felt to have been betrayed in the first partnership of life with the main attachment figure . |
| 73 | An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases , also , where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention . |
| 74 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 75 | This armour had been worn by the first Phoenix King during the ancient wars with Chaos . |
| 76 | Rarely in the history of the Cannes Film , Festival has a debutant director won the Palme d'Or ; but then , rarely has such a formidable and original talent been displayed in a first film . |
| 77 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 78 | According to EPS figures released on May 28 , a total of 12,627 recontras and 9,278 recompas had been demobilized during the first two phases and 22,197 infantry weapons and 215 support weapons had been currently destroyed . |
| 79 | The question revolves around whether revenue should have been recognised in the first place , i.e. had a sale taken place at all . |
| 80 | Confirmation classes have been televised for the first time in Estonia . |
| 81 | Agreement on the treaty had been reached in the first round of negotiations on bilateral relations in Warsaw on Oct. 30-31 . |
| 82 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 83 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 84 | In military terms the problem should have been settled on the first day . |
| 85 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 86 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 87 | The simple harmonic and Morse oscillators are thus particular cases of this general anharmonic oscillator for which the power series has been truncated after the first and second terms , respectively . |
| 88 | Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera . |
| 89 | It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place . |
| 90 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |