Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concentration and output of SCFA in faeces was low on the first day of illness , but returned towards normal by the fifth day ( Table I ) . |
| 2 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 3 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 4 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The quality of football was high in the first half . |
| 7 | Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education . |
| 8 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 9 | The game had already been enlivened by a sumptuous Derrick Lee break-off scrum ball ( and a neat assist by Andrew Garry ) , therefore it was little co-incidence that the stand-off , who had enjoyed an adventurous afternoon , was instrumental in the first try . |
| 10 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 11 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 12 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 13 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | Look here — you 've done wrong twice over : what you said was wrong in the first place ; but then you failed to carry out your promise ! |
| 15 | This was standard with the First Church . |
| 16 | Blake was content for the first time in days . |
| 17 | Firstly , H pylori with homogeneously distributed chromatinic and cytoplasmic content within the bacterial body ( Fig 1 ) , which was associated with all the patterns of epithelial state and was seen in all the examined ultrastructural sections ; this pattern , however , was prominent in the first pattern of contact with gastric epithelium presenting normal looking epithelial cells . |
| 18 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 19 | But do these totals prove that hooligan behaviour of a kind broadly comparable with the present day was widespread before the First World War ? |
| 20 | Trevor Ford , the aggressive Welsh centre-forward , who had been signed for Sunderland as part of Ditchburn 's lavish spending programme ( earning Sunderland the name of ‘ The Bank of England club ’ ) , confirmed that abuse of the system was widespread in the First Division . |
| 21 | Among the pioneers teaching before Pavlova 's arrival , the most important was Helen Webb ( whose father was famous as the first man to swim the English Channel ) . |
| 22 | My period was late for the first time ever . |
| 23 | The Ecumenical Jury , which was present for the first time in 1989 , included members of the Russian Orthodox Church , OCIC , and Interfilm . |
| 24 | Indeed , he was extremely furious and led the fight to establish a new body and was present at the first meeting of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in Leeds in 1890 . |
| 25 | It was embarrassing in the first place . |
| 26 | This was well before the First World War . |
| 27 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
| 28 | A change in circumstances that could not have been predicted exactly does not mean that planning was incorrect in the first place . |
| 29 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 30 | The success of the project was evident at the first concert last year . |