Example sentences of "which [was/were] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Values " which were at first aesthetic have become didactic . " |
| 2 | In May 1711 , Jonathan Swift wrote that the two parties had so shifted their principles since Charles II 's time , " that those two fantastick Names of Whig and Tory , have at present very little Relation to those Opinions , which were at first thought to distinguish them " . |
| 3 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
| 4 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 5 | It showed a radiopaque object , which was at first difficult to identify . |
| 6 | This was Albrecht Ritschl 's The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation , which came out in three volumes between 1870 and 1874 and launched the movement which was at first called ‘ the Ritschlian theology ’ , but is now generally labelled ‘ Liberal Theology ’ . |
| 7 | Robert Hibbert had died in 1849 leaving money for religious purposes , which was at first applied to theological education . |
| 8 | The iron pricker which was at first common was replaced by brass or copper . |
| 9 | For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery . |