Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Somerset levels is one of the strongholds of the country 's 3,000 barn owls , the pair were believed to be the first to breed in Avon for six years . |
| 2 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 3 | It was intended to be the first part of a lengthy tramway to Sutton and beyond . |
| 4 | In what was reported to be the first visit by an Irish Prime Minister to Northern Ireland for 25 years , Charles Haughey , the Taoiseach , visited Belfast on April 11 . |
| 5 | The UK visit was reported to be the first official visit by a Vietnamese Foreign Minister since the end of the Vietnam War , and the talks were reported to have been held in an atmosphere of frankness and goodwill , with both sides keen to improve economic and diplomatic links and to co-operate fully on the issue of the repatriation of " boat people " from Hong Kong . |
| 6 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 7 | It was said to be the first house since Roman times to have central heating : over three miles of piping were used but there was no chimney in the house itself . |
| 8 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 9 | The next meeting I think we 'd already agreed it was going to be the first Monday in August which I think is the |
| 10 | A second version of ‘ La Danse ’ painted in 1932 which until very recently was thought to be the first was donated by Matisse to the Petit Palais in Paris in 1936 . |
| 11 | Between 400 and 500 Iraqi troops were reported captured during the fighting , while 31 US personnel were described as missing or captured , including a female Marine who was thought to be the first US woman soldier to be captured by an enemy force . |
| 12 | This was thought to be the first time for nearly 70 years that police had fired on a white crowd in South Africa . |
| 13 | Lawyers said the action for disclosure of the name was believed to be the first of its kind in Britain . |
| 14 | This was believed to be the first time that an international bank indicted on US money-laundering charges had agreed to co-operate in an investigation against specific individuals . |
| 15 | The ECSC was meant to be the first of several organisations integrating economic sectors , brought about by functional and political spillover . |
| 16 | ‘ The Poison Dwarf ’ ( Barton was 5 feet high in his Littlewood 's socks ) was determined to be the first to find out . |