Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crusade was formed shortly after the first march . |
| 2 | The fourth-seeded American looked sluggish as his serve was broken twice in the first set by the unseeded Swede Magnus Gustafsson , who went on to win their quarter-final 6-2 , 7-6 , clinching the tiebreak 7-4 . |
| 3 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 4 | A BRITISH general was named yesterday as the first commander of Nato 's new Allied Rapid Reaction Corps , heading about 80,000 troops from 11 countries . |
| 5 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 7 | It happened that , for whatever reason , the charge was signed only by the first appellant , whereas both of them were entitled to the freehold . |
| 8 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 9 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 10 | Judgment was reserved yesterday on the first legal moves to pin the blame for the contamination . |
| 11 | Whole gut transit was determined radiographically by the first arrival of the radio-opaque marker(s) and the time when 50% or more of the radio-opaque markers were in the stool . |
| 12 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 13 | The government 's position on the structure of higher education was articulated publicly for the first time by Crosland in his famous speech at Woolwich Polytechnic in 1965 , in which he declared the government 's acceptance of the need for a ‘ system based on the twin traditions which have created our present higher institutions ’ . |
| 14 | The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling ! |