Example sentences of "it was [num] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was one of the first recipes that my husband attempted in his bachelor days . |
| 3 | It was one of the first attacks and everyone on board had been killed . |
| 4 | Ironically , it was one of the first broadcasts which extended to the entire federation since its collapse last year . |
| 5 | It was one of the first buildings used by the public , to be lit by electricity — direct current , 110 volts in parallel . |
| 6 | It was one of the first truly fireproof mills in the country . |
| 7 | It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was one of the first chapels to be built in the island . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Owned by the ‘ Palais de Dance and Cinema Company ’ , it was one of the first large custom built ballrooms in the city of Edinburgh . |
| 16 | It was one of the first on . ’ |
| 17 | It was one of the first cavalry battles in England 's long and bitter Civil War . |
| 18 | I remember Gary , Gary it was one of the first it was when he |
| 19 | But if it was many-one in the first place . |