Sentence examples for had first been written from inspiring English sources

Green states that if this play had been performed when it had first been written, thought to be at some point in the 1920s, "then the history of Agatha Christie, playwright might have been very different".

But later thinkers challenged that view, saying some stories were much younger, and passed into oral tradition having first been written down by writers from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The most common argument for the lack of auditions is that disabled parts have to first be written if disabled actors are to play them.

The letter was the first Givins had received that had been written by an Indian.

The first had been written amid some difficulty.

Two of the stories it contained were all that remained after the loss of the suitcase, and the third had been written the previous spring in Italy.

I didn't say how the first draft had been written.

Although overlooked, a brutal first chapter had been written in the most untidy history of a "Christian nation".

Ian Edmondson was suspended after the Guardian reported in December that his first name had been written across notes relating to the hacking of Sienna Miller's phone.

The doctor discovered in July that a third paper had been written in his name, which he was expected to present at the conference.

The Writers Guild of America went on strike on November 4, 2007, by which time only eight of the planned sixteen episodes of Lost's fourth season had been written.