Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 3 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 4 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 5 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 6 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |
| 7 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |