Example sentences of "[pron] were the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new literacy and cheap newsprint spawned the monster newspapers which were the first cultural artifact of mass society . |
| 2 | One group of male workers merits special attention : the cotton spinners , who were the first real group of factory workers . |
| 3 | You were the first blind person to be employed in the County Council ? |
| 4 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 5 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
| 6 | As guests of the French government , they were the first British school group to learn at the 30,000 square metre , futuristic exhibition and learning centre — and did so entirely in French . |