Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 2 | The newspaper industry was therefore among the first to make use of the development of scientific surveys for measuring opinion . |
| 3 | I 've got an idea they 're a Cornish family and that 's why the old lady was here in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Recognizing amongst the life-filled Indonesian islands a way of being and mind as alien as it was complementary to Western thought , Wallace 's writings were also amongst the first to gleam with an enlightened futurism . |
| 5 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 6 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 7 | Why do you think the body was there in the first place ? |
| 8 | So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place . |
| 9 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 10 | Young people under RCM care were therefore among the first to qualify for release . |
| 11 | Coal-carrying was thus from the first , and has remained both in Britain and on the Continent , one of the basic economic functions of the railway . |
| 12 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
| 13 | Croatia , Czechoslovakia , Finland , Hungary , Poland and Slovenia were also among the first countries to recognize Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 14 | Premier John Major and Japan 's foreign minister were yesterday among the first to remind Clinton of America 's responsibilities . |