Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 2 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 3 | With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light . |
| 4 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 5 | In order to identify any broad trends in the responses and to enable meaningful statistical information to be compiled , it was necessary in the first instance to assign answers to one of a limited number of categories . |
| 6 | It was embarrassing in the first place . |
| 7 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 8 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 9 | It was identical to the first . |