Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 2 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 3 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 4 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 5 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 6 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 7 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 8 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 9 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 10 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 11 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 12 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 13 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 14 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 15 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
| 16 | ‘ Len had a poor League record , but unlike many of the others his reign was in the first division . |
| 17 | Can you give some idea as to what the er , can you give some idea as to what the underlying sales growth was in the first half ? |
| 18 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 19 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 20 | In 1989 the global nature of the drift-net plague was for the first time widely recognised . |
| 21 | Furthermore , all of the sulphate was reduced within the first day of the experiment whereas most of the Fe(III) reduction was after the first day . |
| 22 | During the Thirties when the streamlined fleet was introduced , the driver was for the first time provided with his own driving cab , complete with folding seat . |
| 23 | His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics . |
| 24 | The month began when the new lunar crescent was for the first time visible again after sunset . |
| 25 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 26 | Me elder brother was in the First World War and he er he got married and er she was a flighty sort of girl and she was n't attending to er Mabel properly , the little girl , she had a girl and a boy . |
| 27 | The last record of the bark being used for rope-making was in the First World War , when the German army used lime bark ropes to tow their guns . |
| 28 | Your mother was among the first batch of evacuees , too , like Lilian . |