Example sentences of "was [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was only the first occasion that Chairman Khrushchev reminded Chairman Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth . |
| 2 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 3 | This was only the fourth time that this legislation had been invoked . |
| 4 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 5 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 6 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 7 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |
| 8 | It was not the first time that Orton , the veteran Malawi politician , had suffered this sort of torture . |
| 9 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 10 | It was not the first time that Islamist sympathizers had succeeded in having action taken against a literary work — this had happened in 1959 and especially since the late 1980s . |
| 11 | It was not the first time that Sir Michael had indicated his view that Mr Hussey should leave his post as chairman . |
| 12 | It was not the first time that Sir Michael had indicated his view that Mr Hussey should leave his post as chairman . |
| 13 | It was not the last time that Mary Armour concluded that women artists were consigned to a different class of compartment . |
| 14 | This wistful elegy to the post-Bomb small-town America , The Last Picture Show was probably the first film that pined nostalgically for a generation 's lost innocence , soundtracking Hank Williams ' lonesome holler to great effect . |
| 15 | And it was probably the second door that the professor heard . ’ |
| 16 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |