Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were also the first sponsor of televised croquet in association with Granada TV and we have since launched a competition to stimulate schools involvement in this fascinating sport . |
| 2 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 4 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 5 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |
| 6 | It dared to question the assumption that the creation of wealth , at whatever social cost , was necessarily the first priority of an economic system . |
| 7 | But it was good just to lie in the darkness , curled against him , listening to his even breathing , and know this was just the first night of the rest of their lives . |
| 8 | It was obvious at the time that this was not the first operation of its kind . |
| 9 | A new CDU-FDP combination had been considered but the FDP seemed fickle and unreliable : October 1966 was not the first occasion of course on which they had left the Cabinet . |
| 10 | This was not the first attack of this kind ; there had been another three-pronged assault the previous year in the Fao peninsula . |
| 11 | To begin with , this was not the first use of the curious rendering . |
| 12 | From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army . |
| 13 | It was probably the first guidebook of its kind . |
| 14 | The awe I felt was probably the first phase of hero-worship — the sort of thing some people call a crush . |
| 15 | Zenobia was also the first name of my paternal grandmother who lived and died in Nigeria and whom I never met . |
| 16 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | Roger was also the first bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to keep an episcopal register ( later lost ) . |
| 18 | Historians will want to examine whether Mr Clinton was really the first choice of those new Democrats , or merely stepped into a breach when others , such as Sam Nunn , a senator from Georgia , or Al Gore , now the vice-president , were measured and found wanting . |
| 19 | Something hit me across the face and it was n't the first kiss of springtime . |