Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | An external consultant was called in and the first steps towards a safer environment were taken with the installation of signs indicating emergency exits and fire extinguishers . |
| 2 | At a recent PBAA conference , the policy was laid down that the first Public Television Licence in any given area should be community-controlled and that access be provided for educational and special interest groups . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this turned out to be a wasted effort , as the closure of Arkwright Colliery was announced soon after the first train had used the spur . |
| 4 | He was left out while the first team travelled to Blackburn with speculation mounting that he was as much as 6lb too heavy . |
| 5 | So I was taken in and the first job I was taken , by this young fella , eighteenish , big chap to me , but he said , Come on young'un , this is what you 've got ta do . |
| 6 | The Independent Company 's constant patrolling — ‘ pigi , pigi ’ as the natives called it , for whenever asked , an Australian was always going ( pigi ) somewhere — was extended eastward and the first contacts made with the Portuguese on the east coast during May . |
| 7 | Although maintenance treatment with metoclopramide significantly reduced the crude relapse rate of ulcer symptoms compared with placebo , Moshal 's work ( which was published shortly before the first placebo controlled trial of an H 2 receptor antagonist ) , has largely been forgotten . |