Example sentences of "were [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 2 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 3 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 4 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |
| 5 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 6 | They were midway through the first show and just about everyone was out on stage , giving ten minutes of comparative quiet before another storm of quick-changes and running repairs . |
| 7 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 8 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 9 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |