Example sentences of "was [num] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was the speaker trying to tell me something or was I in the first stages of paranoia ? |
| 2 | In 1988 , distribution was one of the first Departments in C&P to gain ISO 9000 accreditation . |
| 3 | Honey Come Back was one of the first singles I ever bought , and I always loved the way he played . ’ |
| 4 | Thomas Cook was one of the first entrepreneurs to see the huge possibilities of rail travel and in 1844 , after the success of his early excursions , he pronounced that he wanted ‘ railways for the millions ’ . |
| 5 | David Bintley 's The Swan of Tuonela was one of the first attempts to create a ballet from the Finnish epic with music by Sibelius , a truly national composer from Finland . |
| 6 | The German engineer Höchstetter was one of the first experts to exploit the local deposits on an industrial scale . |
| 7 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 8 | Paykel was one of the first researchers to categorise life events according to their meaningfulness and show the qualitative differences between events preceding different disorders ( Paykel , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 10 | Sister Margaret Murphy was one of the first nurses in Ulster to train in administering chemotherapy . |
| 11 | The Moon was one of the first objects to come under the scrutiny of the newly-invented telescope . |
| 12 | It was one of the first chapels to be built in the island . |
| 13 | His father , Frederick Koch , was one of the first Westerners to do business with Stalin , having patented the cracking process , to convert crude oil into petroleum . |
| 14 | She went inside , and was relieved to discover she was one of the first customers . |
| 15 | Along with Argentina , Chile was one of the first countries in Latin America to experience union organisation and by 1970 , the labour movement had emerged as a strong and ideologically independent organisation . |
| 16 | China was one of the first countries to recognize the SLORC after it took power in 1988 . |
| 17 | ‘ I was one of the first chefs to put gastronomic vegetarian meals on the menu seven years ago . |
| 18 | Alva Myrdal and Viola Klein 's Women 's Two Roles was one of the first studies to adopt this concept : its focus is the position of women in the labour force and the problems of combining home and work . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Severe recent flooding in the Andes was one of the first consequences of El Niñshow the impact of global warming , with a 0.041° C mean increase between 1963 and 1990 . |
| 21 | Ironically , it was one of the first broadcasts which extended to the entire federation since its collapse last year . |
| 22 | He was one of the first sculptors in England to sign his work , and he had a thriving practice , several families , among them the Shireburns of Mitton , Lancashire , and the Brownlows of Belton , commissioning him more than once . |
| 23 | One of the most controversial of these is regret theory , of which Professor Sugden was one of the first formulators . |
| 24 | It was one of the first cities conquered by the Arabs in Andalucía and it still retained a Moorish atmosphere . |
| 25 | However Darlington was one of the first towns to apply to the Public Health Board to clean up its area . |
| 26 | Hospitality was one of the first duties of any bride ; at certain social levels it was a woman 's raison d'etre . |
| 27 | Maginn was also a firm believer in the national deaf movement , and was one of the first vice-presidents of the B.D.D.A. |
| 28 | The ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ was one of the first acquisitions for the Met 's Greek and Roman Art Department by curator in charge Carlos A. Picon , who assumed his position in 1990 . |
| 29 | Nicholson was one of the first students at the college to which A. W. Hofmann was appointed professor . |
| 30 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |