Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigade was probably the first youth group to emphasize the specific nature of ‘ boyhood ’ and to develop a programme and a philosophy designed for this stage of life . |
| 2 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 3 | Sophie Parke was only the third child in Britain to receive two hearts in a piggy back style transplant . |
| 4 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 5 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 6 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 7 | Taking the lifeboat out of the narrow harbour entrance into the face of 100-knot winds was only the first hazard . |
| 8 | Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country . |
| 9 | Maastricht was not the last word on the development and future of Europe . |
| 10 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |
| 11 | Please remember that the navigator at that period was also the second pilot , I considered mine was as good as any on the station — he was included . |
| 12 | The Madrid meeting was technically the second part of the 11th special session of the Treaty conference , the first part of which had been held in Vina del Mar , Chile , at the end of 1990 [ see ED no. 41-42 ] . |
| 13 | Zenobia was also the first name of my paternal grandmother who lived and died in Nigeria and whom I never met . |
| 14 | Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim . |
| 15 | The next time we saw each other was 7am the next morning at Bishopsgate police station . ’ |
| 16 | Surrealism was definitely the last straw . |
| 17 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 18 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |
| 19 | The Origin of Species was not the first book to suggest a natural explanation of how life has developed , but its publication in 1859 precipitated the debate that converted most people to evolutionism . |
| 20 | lt was almost the first remark he had addressed to me all evening . |
| 21 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 22 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 23 | Historians will want to examine whether Mr Clinton was really the first choice of those new Democrats , or merely stepped into a breach when others , such as Sam Nunn , a senator from Georgia , or Al Gore , now the vice-president , were measured and found wanting . |
| 24 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 25 | Capron was also the fifth face in the photograph that Urquhart had wanted to take from the Nowaks ' house . |
| 26 | Blandin was both the first woman and the first Green president of a regional council and at 39 was the youngest to be elected . |
| 27 | Happiness was not the first quality to come to my mind when I thought of Jennifer and Christopher . |
| 28 | This type of discourse — free indirect speech or free indirect style — is peculiar to the novel ; it makes its appearance in the late eighteenth century and Jane Austen was probably the first novelist to realise its full potential . |
| 29 | In this welcoming speech Mr M A Prouten , executive chairman of Brooke Marine , recalled that Searcher was not the first ship to be built at his yard for the Customs Department . |
| 30 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |