Example sentences of "first [noun sg] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 2 | My very first race was at the White City Stadium . |
| 3 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 4 | Once the first week was over the two small girls joined others in the schoolroom . |
| 5 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 6 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 7 | It was agreed that the receivers ' first duty was to the secured creditors . |
| 8 | His first position was with the old Edinburgh Corporation as a trainee valuer and he has been with Lothian Regional Council since reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 9 | The first fire was in the same store . |
| 10 | H375 DRV arrived on a cold , wet night , and my first impression was of the prodigious efficacy of the three-speed heater/demister . |
| 11 | My first impression was of the Madonna-like beauty of Cis . |
| 12 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |