Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [was/were] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 2 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 3 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 4 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 5 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 6 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 7 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 8 | In June the Second Front began and John was in the first wave of troops to cross the Channel . |
| 9 | High military spenders like Sudan , Mauritania , Peru and Vietnam were among the first countries to default on their debt . |
| 10 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 11 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 12 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 13 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |