Example sentences of "used [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 2 | There are two common notes in this phrase : A , the 6th in C and the 3rd in F , is used for the first change ( bars 1 and 2 ) ; whilst E , the 3rd in C and maj7th in F , is used for the second ( bars 2 and 3 ) … |
| 3 | Bonaventure of the St John of God Hospitallers , welcomed everyone on arrival at the centre which was to be used for the first time . |
| 4 | Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface . |
| 5 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
| 6 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 7 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 10 | For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session . |
| 11 | The emergency service was used for the first time on 17th . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 14 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 15 | If the withholding of manifestations of parental love is used as a first measure of initial disciplining , then it must be remembered that the measure of the distress necessary to be imposed , need be very small indeed if the imposition is started early enough . |
| 16 | the number of characters ; ie letters , figures , signs or spaces in a piece of copy , line or paragraph used as a first stage in type calculations . |
| 17 | Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) . |
| 18 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 19 | Infants most at risk are those where high PIP ( >26 mm Hg ) is used within the first 24 h . |
| 20 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 21 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 22 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 23 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 24 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 25 | This would be used in the first place to pay that week 's invoice and the balance , if any , would reduce the outstanding invoice of £24,196 . |
| 26 | The 601 , to sample later this year is destined to be used in the first Power PC Macs and other low cost desktops . |
| 27 | The second prevalence survey employed eight indicator agencies : six of the ten agencies used in the first survey ( Home Office , police , probation service , Detoxification Unit , Drugs Council , and Education Department ) and two additional agencies , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse , and the Society for Biophysical Medicine . |
| 28 | As with NAEP , the science tests exhibit the most imaginative types of questions , although Michael Marland praised those used in the first secondary language survey . |
| 29 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 30 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |