Example sentences of "been [verb] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 2 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 3 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 4 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 5 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 7 | Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats . |
| 8 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 9 | It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it . |
| 10 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 11 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 12 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 13 | Jitters had been wounded in the first landing , in the shoulder . |
| 14 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 22 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |