Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
| 2 | Dave 's verdict : the Atlas is a completely new bag and we at Outdoor Action were the first to test it . |
| 3 | WHEN Newry 's Errol Lutton makes his Ulster senior debut in the inter-provincials next weekend in Dublin he can thank his lucky stars that his club were the first to complete their Senior One fixtures this season … otherwise he would have missed his big chance . |
| 4 | Religion was the first vehicle for general thoughts about existence . |
| 5 | Gregson was the first in and he looked across at Scott indifferently as Finn entered , smiling thinly by way of a greeting . |
| 6 | Many felt sympathy with Morrissey 's stance over this , but many did n't , preferring instead to follow Julie Burchill 's line that Bands Aid was the first record in the history of popular music that actually achieved a positive result ; that Band Aid made the likes of The Redskins quake in their Doc Marten 's and feel totally inconsequential . |
| 7 | His returned warranty card was the first drawn out for the month of April under a new scheme to encourage registration of pumps and a faster system of repair as featured in February 's Newsround . |
| 8 | The Tokyo-based company refused to confirm the price , but said the deal was the first of ‘ a number of long-term investments in Britain' . |
| 9 | Oudran was the first police officer to be convicted for his conduct during the demonstration . |
| 10 | The police force was the first public sector occupation to achieve widows ' pensions as such . |
| 11 | Held 2–8 March , the fair enjoyed twice as much space in its new premises , the Grand Palais , as it had done in its former venue , the basement of the Hotel George V. Still an all-French affair despite the eagerness of foreign galleries to get in , this year 's Salon was the first to include nine contemporary dealers , including Gerald Piltzer who made a last minute decision to join in . |
| 12 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 13 | A Colour Atlas of AIDS was the first book of its kind : written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain it comprehensively described in words and outstanding colour photography all aspects of this pandemic disease from epidemiology to transmission and prevention . |
| 14 | Murder was the first destroyer of privacy as it was of so much else . |
| 15 | Puddephat 's murder was the last item in the bulletin . |
| 16 | Right now the well-being of his car seat was the last thing on her mind . |
| 17 | The soldier was the first to die along the Syrian-Israeli border since 1975 . |
| 18 | The search was the 17th since operations started in 1988 and began immediately before a visit to Vietnam by a delegation of US senators . |
| 19 | This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled . |
| 20 | The classic example of his footwork was the first Wigan try in the 1985 final . |
| 21 | BBC 's ‘ That 's Life ’ consumer television programme was the first outside customer , followed by Barclaycard mainly for consumer issues and Newcastle College of Arts and Technology for employment and benefit issues . |
| 22 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 23 | In the patient with Hodgkin 's disease , isolated oesophageal lymphoma was the first relapse after a 13 year interval free of disease . |
| 24 | The Health Education Authority 's Look After Your Heart Charter ceremony was the first to be held in South Tees and the 14 signatories represented organisations from the very large to the very small and were from both the private and public sector , from traditional and hi-tech industry . |
| 25 | So Oxford 's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park . |
| 26 | Horseradish was used for coughs and colds , wild strawberry for anaemia and nervousness and honeysuckle was the first example of aspirin . |
| 27 | Equally , her study was the first to find that chimpanzees wage war on each other , hunt and eat other animals , and even turn murderously on their own kind . |
| 28 | Introducing the report , which was eventually sponsored by 12 top companies , including BP , Hewlett Packard and ICI , Lord Caldecote said that the study was the first ‘ to present a student 's eye view of the ills and problems surrounding a career in engineering ’ . |
| 29 | Introducing the report , which was eventually sponsored by 12 top companies , including BP , Hewlett Packard and ICI , Lord Caldecote said that the study was the first ‘ to present a student 's eye view of the ills and problems surrounding a career in engineering ’ . |
| 30 | The study was the first to be conducted on one of Britain 's beaches which fails to meet European sewage pollution standards . |