Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Stuart began by telling a couple of jokes , which fell rather flat because he was so jumpy and I do n't think the jokes were much good in the first place . |
| 2 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 3 | Over the latter generally slowly improving money wages brought a degree of improvement in real wages because cereal prices were generally low over the first half of the century . |
| 4 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |
| 5 | The LTA were clearly ill-advised in the first place to have increased the prize money for Birmingham this year . |
| 6 | In those days they were automatically exempt until the first round proper . |
| 7 | I ca n't claim to have had my eyes opened to your true character , Gianluigi , for they were wide open from the first . |
| 8 | The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney . |
| 9 | In the north of the country guerrillas were particularly active during the first half of the year . |
| 10 | Almost 90% of UK instalment credit accounts were fully up-to-date in the first three months of this year compared with 89.4% in the corresponding period in 1992 . |
| 11 | Cambridge ink-jet printer maker Domino Printing Sciences Plc told the annual meeting yesterday that despite the strong finish to 1992 , first quarter trading has been below expectations and this was bound to affect interim results : in particular , sales in the US were unexpectedly slow during the first three months coinciding with the change of administration , it said . |
| 12 | We were very poor in the first half and paid the price . ’ |
| 13 | He was too old to be called up ( a lost generation of men who were too young for the first war , too old for the second ) . |
| 14 | I would also drop Tufnell , who was most disappointing in the First Test . |
| 15 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |
| 16 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 17 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |
| 18 | It was a laugh of happiness and male conceit , and I was so pleased by the first that I did n't mind the second too much . |
| 19 | I was so excited by the first decent piece of gold ever found , that a test I once read about came into mind . |
| 20 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 22 | Although progress in passing European single market laws was painfully slow during the first months of the French presidency , Paris hands over to Dublin this month amid a last-minute rush of important agreements . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 24 | Albert Einstein was largely responsible for the first , was entirely responsible for the second , and played a major role in the development of the third . |
| 25 | This poem hints that we can go beyond the form of the ritual only.to be horrified by the realization that there is nothing there , or there is only some petty squalor , meaning having receded out of sight if it was ever present in the first place . |
| 26 | This was clearly evident on the first day of the event , sponsored again by ADT Auctions , where Gt Britain won only one set in her opening four matches , this despite having good opportunities in at least four of the eight sets that she eventually lost . |
| 27 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 28 | Leeds was also responsible for the first major excavation of a settlement at Sutton Courtenay , Berkshire ( Leeds 1923 ; 1927 ; 1947 ) as well as reporting on a number of cemeteries ( 1916 ; 1924 ; and Harden 1936 ; and Riley 1942 ; and Shortt 1953 ) . |
| 29 | Although the excavators have warned that these dates are only a broad indication of that of the complex and segmented line which is this phase of the Danevirke as a whole , they nevertheless believe that in a period of danger from Germany Harald rebuilt the central section , and was also responsible for the first phases of the flanking lines to east and west . |
| 30 | It is curious that it should have happened , that Michel came upon the scene the very instant she was really free for the first time in her life . |