Example sentences of "[was/were] not the first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 2 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 3 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 4 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 5 | This was not the first time feminists had mobilized politically around religion , both to mount a searching critique of patriarchal society and to envisage more egalitarian forms of social organization . |
| 6 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 7 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 8 | It was n't the first time Berowne had spent the night in St Matthew 's church vestry . ’ |
| 9 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 10 | It was n't the first time Isabel had said the words . |
| 11 | It was n't the first time Juliet had wished she were n't an only child . |
| 12 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |