Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You must have known that you were n't the first . |
| 2 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 3 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 4 | But despite that it was n't the first camp up . |
| 5 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 6 | Well I 'm not sure that it was exactly the first , but it was one of the early ones , that 's true . |
| 7 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 8 | It is also , perhaps , not without significance that Fahreddin Acemi is the first to be mentioned as receiving a salary specifically in respect of his function as Mufti , though it can not be shown beyond doubt that he was actually the first to have done so . |
| 9 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 10 | Early maternal deprivation had clearly left him with a hankering for mother figures in his life and I was n't the first . |
| 11 | The Story of the Fraserburgh Lifeboats takes a similar look at the Fraserburgh lifeboat station , which had one of the first lifeboats to be built and which was also the first RNLI lifeboat station in Scotland . |
| 12 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 13 | Something hit me across the face and it was n't the first kiss of springtime . |
| 14 | … and it was definitely the first time she 'd become aware of one person in that audience , one watching pair of eyes … |
| 15 | The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Stuart Street but I was still the first home to No. 9 , and even Lisabeth seemed to be out or at least locked in her cage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But he was hardly the first good-looking man she 'd had dinner with . |
| 18 | It marked the dedication of a new city church … but it was also the first time a Roman Catholic cardinal had preached before the Monarch since the time of Henry The Eighth . |
| 19 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 20 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 21 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a mammoth task , ’ Sybille recalled , ‘ because it was really the first big party Laura had given in her life . |
| 23 | For I was not the first to have stood in Balboa 's footprints . |
| 24 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 25 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 26 | Yet , curiously , the science that has changed the presentation of text has brought it back under the control of a single person , just as it was when the first presses printed . |
| 27 | For it was n't the first time this had happened , by no means . |