Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the first [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both these works were played during the first Tilford Bach Festival after which William Mann reviewing the concert in the Times wrote ‘ such a Festival in such a place does Bach signal homage ’ . |
| 2 | The market prospects for bauxite are improving and the industry is being redeveloped with the help of the former multinational company owners who were displaced by the first Manley government . |
| 3 | The next year they were followed by the first Clayton Volunteers ( named after the Reverend ( Tubby Clayton , founder of TocH ) . |
| 4 | Our newest granddaughter Rachel was christened on the first Sunday of the new year , and that was a wonderful happy day , with a party in her parents ’ home . |
| 5 | The castle was built by the first Lord Scrope who fought at Crecy and was knighted for his efforts . |
| 6 | He was elected to the first Montgomeryshire county council in 1889 . |
| 7 | The agreement was described as the first US arms sale to a former Warsaw Pact country . |