Example sentences of "[pron] were the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millet and I were the first to check that tower , after Falconer 's body was discovered by a guard . |
| 2 | The reagin tests , which were the first tests to become widely available , are still in common use . |
| 3 | Right from the beginning , he fought the signs of ill health which were the first scribblings on the wall . |
| 4 | A new literacy and cheap newsprint spawned the monster newspapers which were the first cultural artifact of mass society . |
| 5 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 6 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 7 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 8 | It is easy to understand how the Lehman ‘ Madonna ’ continued to astonish even the restorers Mario Modestini and Pico Cellini , and the art historian Federico Zeri , who were the first to say it was modern , and correctly guessed its authorship . |
| 9 | The approach also has precedents among other women who were the first in their fields , and has been adopted in feminist work like that of Friedan and Greer . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was the Dwarf merchants trading for fur , charcoal or mineral ore who were the first to deal with men on a regular basis . |
| 11 | ‘ So , the Luger 's a German gun — and who were the first major users of chemical weapons on this planet ? |
| 12 | One group of male workers merits special attention : the cotton spinners , who were the first real group of factory workers . |
| 13 | In contrast it was the British , not the Americans , who were the first to express alarm at the wider implications of the communist challenge in French Indo-China . |
| 14 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 15 | After all , you were the first on the scene , and this is the second time you 've been , well almost , in at the death . |
| 16 | While we are on the subject of money , in 1991 you were the first art historian to be awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Prize . |
| 17 | After all , you were the first to leave the dinner table . |
| 18 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 19 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 20 | You were the first blind person to be employed in the County Council ? |
| 21 | I admit it freely , and I admit that you were the first to make the diagnosis . ’ |
| 22 | So when , when you were working at Squires the fact that you were the first woman ? |
| 23 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 24 | But then you were the first one to say to me when we took him out , oh what do you think ? |
| 25 | As though we were the first man and woman ever , walking in the Garden of Eden . |
| 26 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 27 | We were the first to automate all that . ’ |
| 28 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 29 | We were the first up the hill and had to break a path , so although a summer walk up Schiehallion is simple and quick to the point of disappointment , winter is a trifle harder . |
| 30 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |