Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff and pupils were on first name terms , so that Miss Clifton was Cliffy to her face , and Anna Essinger , who had been dubbed Tante Anna in German , was known simply as T A. The children contributed to the maintenance of their school , to the extent of making furniture and cleaning and repairing the building . |
| 2 | GE of the USA had ten times the back-up staff and resources of EMI and were on first name terms with the key people in the medical world . |
| 3 | In May 1711 , Jonathan Swift wrote that the two parties had so shifted their principles since Charles II 's time , " that those two fantastick Names of Whig and Tory , have at present very little Relation to those Opinions , which were at first thought to distinguish them " . |
| 4 | Understanding in this sense means being able to perceive structure amongst a set of observations that were at first sight perplexing and confusing . |
| 5 | Neither Princess was of first rank in the European hierarchy of royalty and both were protestants . |
| 6 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 7 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 8 | Yeah , he was in first thing . |
| 9 | Suddenly I was on first names terms . |
| 10 | The second factor was at first O-levels . |
| 11 | This occupation ( at least with the Senones of the Adriatic coast and the Boii north of the Apennines ) was at first equivalent to an extermination of Celtic tribes . |
| 12 | While girls are at higher risk than boys , increasingly research is suggesting more boys experience sexual abuse than was at first thought . |
| 13 | She was at first sight a cheerful figure , a plump woman of 65 who wore a brightly patterned dress and whose curly hair showed around the front of her white scarf . |
| 14 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 15 | John 's next decision was at first blush disconcerting . |
| 16 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 17 | In other words , it had to be accurate in every tiny detail and to look as if it was at first glance . |
| 18 | The tenanted trade manager was at first Mike Bryan , a former area manager for Whitbreads . |