Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 2 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 3 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 4 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 5 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 6 | It was on the first tape . |
| 7 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 8 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 9 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 10 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 11 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 12 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 13 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |
| 14 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |
| 15 | Oh it was after the First World War because everything was rationed and you could n't buy onions but er I 'd say it was about seventy years ago |
| 16 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |
| 17 | It was in the first Easter vac that he produced The Table . |
| 18 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 19 | A radically new urban experience was presented : whereas in the nineteenth century the major urban change was in the formation of tight-knit , high-density conurbations , and between the wars it was in the first flowering of low-density peripheral suburbanization , the second half of the twentieth century has seen metropolitanization as the essential phenomenon . |
| 20 | Cos I know the principle used to be that is er , it was in the first aid room cos that 's where all the first aid treatments |
| 21 | If , on the other hand , there are many unstressed syllables between the stressed ones , then the unstressed ones are squeezed together , so that the time between the stresses is approximately the same as it was in the first example ( see the sentence " The weather we had last summer was awful " ) . |
| 22 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
| 23 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 24 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 25 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 26 | It was like the first time she 'd seen him , just after Peter had introduced her as his fiancée . |