Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 2 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 3 | His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 6 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 7 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 8 | It is therefore a moving thought that the rivermen were among the first people in the modern countryside business to begin to stop and think a little harder about what they were actually doing . |
| 9 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they . |
| 12 | The company were among the first , post-war , to use front-wheel drive for larger cars . |
| 13 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |