Example sentences of "the [noun] were [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The company were among the first , post-war , to use front-wheel drive for larger cars . |
| 7 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |