Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | you were right the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 3 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 4 | In Britain the ILP and the Communist Party were naturally the first to take up the call for united action . |
| 5 | The seven tax fraud charges were only the first of many corruption charges expected to be filed against Marcos and her children . |
| 6 | He said the changes were only the first step in a longer plan for the building , a former cinema . |
| 7 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 8 | The Greeks were perhaps the first to study the peculiarities of foreigners . |
| 9 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 10 | They were discovered in a search for diuretics , i.e. drugs which increase the volume of urine , and were not the first diuretics to have additional valuable properties . |
| 11 | We were not the first and I am sure we will not be the last to respond to financial pressures by selling off rare books . |
| 12 | Bryant and Bradley were not the first to notice that poor readers were also insensitive to the sounds of words , but their study is the first to establish the causal connection between the two . |
| 13 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 14 | The English and Welsh , who look back on the year 1870 ( Forster 's Education Act ) as the effective starting point of a state system , were not the first in Europe to realise that a literate workforce would be needed to meet the ever more complex demands of industry . |
| 15 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 16 | But these fourth-century ‘ apparatchiks ’ , the men of the age of Eubulus ( p. 245 ) , were not the first Athenians to gain power by boring work on committees . |
| 17 | In fact , the Romans were not the first here . |
| 18 | Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 20 | These , it was thought , were just the first countries on the list . |
| 21 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 22 | They were just the first . |
| 23 | companies which were already the first or second company in their respective national market ; |
| 24 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , part-time women were usually left to management 's mercies and when recession struck they were usually the first to go . |
| 26 | He drew level with Marius and myself and started shouting about the English and how they were always the first to desert ; how he , Corporal Auriega , with four years ' Legion service , who had endured shelling in Beirut and the heat and flies of Chad , had finally had enough . |
| 27 | A Digital spokeswoman in Massachusetts declined to say when the decision would be made , but said in such cases , the affected employees were always the first to be notified . |
| 28 | Almost all candidates in last month 's general elections , which were also the first in more than 22 years , called for lifting of martial law and defence laws and demanded the freedom of the press , freedom of association , and the legalisation of political parties banned by law since 1957 . |
| 29 | There were also the first beginnings of an Islamic nationalism in the Russian Middle East . |
| 30 | These papers were also the first in Swahili . |