Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 32 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 33 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 34 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 35 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 36 | The bitch , Rintelna the Chatelaine , was to whelp the first litter born in Australia , having been mated prior to leaving the UK . |
| 37 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 38 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 39 | The results were overwhelming : ‘ So much was sold the first night it was almost scary ’ , recalls Gerald Stiebel of Rosenberg and Stiebel , Inc . |
| 40 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 41 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 42 | Mark hencher from Newent In Gloucestershire was amoung the first on the scene . |
| 43 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 44 | But that performance and the world record before the war inspired one young spectator at the White City , Roger Bannister , who was to run the first four-minute mile nine years later , and set off a string of British world record breakers , Derek Ibbotson , Sebastian Coe , Steve Ovett and Steve Cram . |
| 45 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 46 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 47 | This was to accompany the first showing in Europe of the musical Narnia , which played in All Hallows by the Tower . |
| 48 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 49 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 50 | Doreen , she realised , was having the first of her private talks with Silas , and she longed to know if the barrier he had raised was about to crumble . |
| 51 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 52 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 53 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 54 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 55 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 56 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 57 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 58 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |
| 59 | In 1975 Anderson was appointed the first EEC delegate in Southern Africa , responsible for the EEC Commission 's relations with Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |
| 60 | Admiral Sir David Luce was appointed the first tri-Service C-in-C , Far East , in November 1962 . |