Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | than there was in the first place . |
| 2 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 3 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 4 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 5 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 6 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 7 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 8 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 9 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 10 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 11 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 12 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 13 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 14 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 15 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |
| 16 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 17 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 18 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , there are many unstressed syllables between the stressed ones , then the unstressed ones are squeezed together , so that the time between the stresses is approximately the same as it was in the first example ( see the sentence " The weather we had last summer was awful " ) . |
| 20 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 21 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |