Example sentences of "first [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new postmodern sensibility was perhaps first given systematic articulation by the critic Susan Sontag in the middle 1960s . |
| 2 | Historically , the principal safeguard was the doctrine of the rule of law , first given widespread currency in A. V. Dicey 's extraordinarily influential Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution , the first edition of which appeared in 1885 . |
| 3 | It was the demagogues of Ancient Rome who first made proper government impossible . |
| 4 | One study found that nearly two thirds of patients had had their incontinence for over two years before they first sought professional advice . |
| 5 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 6 | It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day-glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free-spirited party anthems . |
| 7 | Women would have the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of their pregnancy as long as they had first received non-binding counselling . |
| 8 | Wedgwood first produced fine bone china in the early years of the 19th century and since the turn of the 20th century it has become the company 's major product . |
| 9 | Little came of this but in the next decade , the 1790s , the French armies were to use the large-scale production of hydrogen by decomposition to some effect when balloons first found military use . |
| 10 | He was first to find frequent listeria contamination of cook-chill foods and demonstrated the failure of microwaves always to kill the bacteria which can be fatal to foetuses , newborns , and the elderly . |
| 11 | Both the Borough and Health Authority have supported the work of ACET in Ealing by being among the first to provide financial support . |
| 12 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 13 | Since its first reported large-scale synthesis back in early 1990 , larger ‘ buckyballs ’ , as the ; y have been inelegantly christened , keep cropping up . |
| 14 | It was the first reported public protest in Beijing since June . |
| 15 | After graduating from Sandhurst Military College with the coveted Sword of Honour he had first seen active duty in Korea where he suffered a serious leg injury while attempting to rescue a wounded colleague . |
| 16 | Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce . |
| 17 | Dustin had first met nineteen-year-old ballet dancer Anne Byrne in 1963 . |
| 18 | If you wish to go more deeply into compound word stress , you should first study English word formation . |
| 19 | These were obtained by first establishing approximate blackout and whiteout points by observing a succession of images and then fixing eight equally spaced points in the interval between them . |
| 20 | A full turnout of altar servers assisted , young children brought up gifts and their drawing at the offertory , all the Special Ministers came first to receive Holy Communion , and after Mass people gathered to greet the Bishop and share wine and refreshments in the parish house . |
| 21 | Medical efforts to extend the acts first provoked organized opposition at the Social Science Congress at Bristol in October 1869 . |
| 22 | The average age of the clients in this study was 31 and on average these individuals first received institutional care at the age of 10 . |
| 23 | The first received full support of the trade union , the second did not . |
| 24 | The teacher should plan carefully first to create dramatic tension , and then to use it productively . |
| 25 | In RoboCop , the monstrous law enforcement droid ED 209 was first built full scale ( 7 feet/2.1 m tall ) of plastic on a wooden frame , with movable joints for setting positions and altering them between takes , but no intention of on-screen motion or facility for creating it . |
| 26 | Charles McPherson is also an alto and tenor saxophonist , but first attracted international attention for his work with Charlie Mingus from 1960 to 1974 . |
| 27 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 28 | The first compared face-to-face interviewing both with telephone interviewing and with a mixed-mode approach . |
| 29 | This study is the first to suggest non-parallel enzyme synthesis in man . |
| 30 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |