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 | He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for . |
| 3 | It was one of the first recipes that my husband attempted in his bachelor days . |
| 4 | It was one of the first attacks and everyone on board had been killed . |
| 5 | Ironically , it was one of the first broadcasts which extended to the entire federation since its collapse last year . |
| 6 | It was one of the first buildings used by the public , to be lit by electricity — direct current , 110 volts in parallel . |
| 7 | It was one of the first truly fireproof mills in the country . |
| 8 | It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house . |
| 9 | Their choice of diamond was significant : it was one of the first scientific studies of crystals to exploit the simplicity of diamond : a property we will return to later . |
| 10 | It was one of the first chapels to be built in the island . |
| 11 | It was one of the first air bases in 1915 , between the wars was used for gun and bomb testing , and from 1951–71 for atomic weapons research . |
| 12 | The problem of how the digger wasp locates her home has a special place in the history of ethology : it was one of the first questions about behaviour mechanisms ever to be asked , and experimentally answered . |
| 13 | Despite the slightly unsatisfactory nature of the data set used by Lucas , and although the tests he applied were hardly rigorous , his paper was influential in that it was one of the first to show that certain of the predictions made by the rational expectations hypothesis were not entirely inconsistent with the data . |
| 14 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 15 | It was one of the first to introduce local schools management , which paved the way for a series of applications for full grant-maintained status . |
| 16 | Owned by the ‘ Palais de Dance and Cinema Company ’ , it was one of the first large custom built ballrooms in the city of Edinburgh . |
| 17 | It was one of the first on . ’ |
| 18 | It was one of the first cavalry battles in England 's long and bitter Civil War . |
| 19 | I remember Gary , Gary it was one of the first it was when he |
| 20 | But if it was many-one in the first place . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 26 | It was embarrassing in the first place . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 29 | It was identical to the first . |