Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 2 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
| 3 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |
| 4 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 5 | Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding . |
| 6 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 7 | Manor 's defence was kept busy in the first half and the Alton side held a slender 1–0 lead at the interval . |