Example sentences of "had be [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 2 | He was thankful that the lightweight suit and polo shirt had been on the first hanger to hand . |
| 3 | While Horsley had been cavorting about at Oxford , he had been on the first rung of an entirely different social ladder , as a solicitor 's clerk . |
| 4 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 5 | Truman indicated late in 1945 that the United States would not be a passive bystander in the Middle and Near East as it had been after the First World War . |
| 6 | There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity . |
| 7 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 8 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 9 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |