Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] been the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 2 | Indeed , it appears that an unknown Spanish haulier on this sailing had been the first trucker to actually receive a tangible benefit from the Single Market . |
| 3 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 4 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 5 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 6 | Rural housing had been the first to receive attention because it could be regarded as the responsibility of each landowner ; but the housing in towns was literally nobody 's business and could pass unnoticed , just as factory hands could be laid off in a recession , as farming labourers with tied cottages could not . |
| 7 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 8 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 9 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |