Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address . |
| 2 | Running the film group for ICI gave Haslam particular pleasure because it was the first time he had ever been fully in charge of a business , which he found very challenging . |
| 3 | They all turned and looked at me in disgust when I was the first to be called by Estella . |
| 4 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 5 | ‘ The flights were flagrant violations of the no-fly zone but they were the first armed attacks recorded by the UN since shortly after the no-fly zone was instituted ’ last October , the State Department spokesman , Richard Boucher , said . |
| 6 | The film was a significant Oscar-winner because it was the first X-rated film to do so . |
| 7 | Millet and I were the first to check that tower , after Falconer 's body was discovered by a guard . |
| 8 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 10 | ‘ Once we got to the hospital I could feel her head and it was the first moment it all became real for me . |
| 11 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 12 | There were arguments about procedure because he was the first Masai from the area to die in this way . |
| 13 | I was so proud that day because it was the first time I wore a rather special red coat with matching red hat . |
| 14 | We chose that day because it was the first day |
| 15 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 16 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 17 | The Lincoln Red 's breed society has a pioneering spirit : it was the first to introduce beef recording and it was the first to dehorn its breed deliberately , dropping its ‘ Shorthorn ’ tag by 1960 . |
| 18 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 19 | We must now fear with good reason that it was the first three months which were not typical . |
| 20 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 21 | Darryl Davidson of Gregson Road , Hoghton , Preston wins a VIP day out for a party of four people on the East Lancashire Railway because he was the first entry selected at random with the four correct answers to our quiz based on the North West line . |
| 22 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 23 | There are regional labs covering the whole country but ours was the first . |
| 24 | At our pre-delegates conference earlier this year whether it was the first one or the second one I ca n't remember our region unanimously accepted the policy review . |
| 25 | An auspicious day in cutter history as it was the first instance of the reigning monarch travelling by revenue cutter . |
| 26 | The case made Scottish legal history as it was the first prosecution under Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 27 | The case made Scottish legal history as it was the first prosecution brought under the new Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 28 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 29 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 30 | perhaps the major significance of the Council of Europe rests in the fact that it was the first European organisation with a political flavour . |