Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 2 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 3 | It would be a marvellous feat if the 22-year-old swimming pool attendant from Wakefield was to supercede Hare at the first attempt . |
| 4 | Margaret Elder was giving evidence on the first day of the fatal accident inquiry into drugs deaths in Glasgow . |
| 5 | The HRT team — owned by Tom Walkinshaw and managed by Percy — became national heroes as the first to win Bathurst in an Australian car since 1987 , when Peter Brock was awarded victory after the first and second-placed Texaco Sierras were excluded . |
| 6 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |
| 7 | On the night of their escape , Moses had commanded the Jews to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the doorposts of their homes as a sign that they were to be ‘ passed over ’ by the Angel of Death , who was to bring death to the first born of every Egyptian family . |