Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] [noun] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in fact the first of the so-called Friendly Islands to be seen by Europeans : the Dutch navigators Willem Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob LeMaire spotted them in April 1616 . |
| 2 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 3 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 4 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 5 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |