Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie Parke was only the third child in Britain to receive two hearts in a piggy back style transplant . |
| 2 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 3 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 4 | Maastricht was not the last word on the development and future of Europe . |
| 5 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |
| 6 | Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim . |
| 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 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 9 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 10 | Historians will want to examine whether Mr Clinton was really the first choice of those new Democrats , or merely stepped into a breach when others , such as Sam Nunn , a senator from Georgia , or Al Gore , now the vice-president , were measured and found wanting . |
| 11 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 12 | This type of discourse — free indirect speech or free indirect style — is peculiar to the novel ; it makes its appearance in the late eighteenth century and Jane Austen was probably the first novelist to realise its full potential . |
| 13 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 14 | Roger was also the first bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to keep an episcopal register ( later lost ) . |
| 15 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |