Example sentences of "[vb past] be [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |
| 2 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 3 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 4 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 5 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 6 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 7 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 8 | It proved a fitting finale to what had been the first period of sustained fighting in the war . |
| 9 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 10 | In what Western experts said was the first recognition of the extent of Kremlin military activity , Lieutenant-General Anatoly Sidorov listed Korea , Egypt , Syria , Angola and Ethiopia as other countries where Soviet troops fought . |