Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it was the first " in BNC.
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1 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
2 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
3 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
4 | John was happier with this work than any of his others , and Myfanwy Piper recorded that it was the first of his own ballets which John seriously believed in . |
5 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
6 | The Minister of Defence Dimitur Ludzhev on a visit to Ankara on March 10 stressed that it was the first visit to Turkey by a Bulgarian Defence Minister since 1917 . |
7 | Mr Clarke 's solicitor said as it was the first time the new offence had been tried under the 1991 Road Traffic Act they would be considering an appeal against sentence . |
8 | A report spread that it was the first step towards establishing a joint all-Ireland police force with the Irish Republic . |