Example sentences of "appeared [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene . |
| 2 | Of these , three items , ‘ A Visit to Newgate ’ , ‘ The Black Veil ’ , and ‘ The Great Winglebury Duel ’ appeared for the first time in this collection . |
| 3 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 4 | Similarly a small black hoverfly , Cheilosia bergenstammi , whose larvae feed on ragwort , was captured in 1972 , 1973 and 1974 ( N= 19 ) and has not been seen since , whereas C. vernalis , whose food plant is unknown , appeared for the first time in 1978 and has since become frequent ( N=118 ) . |
| 5 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |
| 6 | A separation appeared for the first time between design and production . |
| 7 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 8 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 9 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 10 | Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley . |
| 11 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Wordsworth wrote all the poems , with the exception of Tintern Abbey , which subsequently appeared in the first volume of Lyrical Ballads . |
| 13 | Outside the marched in the aborigines had their fire of gum tree branches to purify the atmosphere very much like the flames of fire which appeared on the first whit Sunday . |