Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was good just to lie in the darkness , curled against him , listening to his even breathing , and know this was just the first night of the rest of their lives . |
| 2 | This was n't the first Darkfall . |
| 3 | This was n't the first time it had got me into trouble , but I intended to make damn sure it was the last . |
| 4 | This was n't the first time the pin in the tower blew out , it used to happen one in every six mixes . |
| 5 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 6 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 7 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 8 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
| 9 | It was obvious at the time that this was not the first operation of its kind . |
| 10 | This was not the first attack of this kind ; there had been another three-pronged assault the previous year in the Fao peninsula . |
| 11 | Although this was not the first case in which this view had been taken , it was the first in which an appellate court had squarely addressed the point . |
| 12 | President Poincaré wrote gloomily in his diary : ‘ Encore une défaillance ! ‘ , revealing that this was not the first news he had received of a lapse of morale at Verdun . |
| 13 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 14 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 15 | This was not the first time the elevator had startled her with its moods . |
| 16 | Though Jan was not initially aware of it , this was not the first time they 'd been cast together . |
| 17 | This was not the first time my employer had raised such a question ; indeed , it seems to be something which genuinely troubles him . |
| 18 | This was not the first time and , if he had survived , certainly would not have been the last . |
| 19 | This was not the first time I had dabbled in adultery . |
| 20 | For this was not the first time . |
| 21 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 22 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 23 | This was not the first time feminists had mobilized politically around religion , both to mount a searching critique of patriarchal society and to envisage more egalitarian forms of social organization . |
| 24 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 25 | This was not the first time the UDR lieutenant colonel has faced danger . |
| 26 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
| 27 | To begin with , this was not the first use of the curious rendering . |
| 28 | This was possibly the first steam working along here for some 25 years . |
| 29 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 30 | And number twenty-three was now the first house in the street . |