Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tallest , heaviest boys were in the A group ; the next size down was B and so on until F. F was the group for the real tinies , the handful of Alec Davidsons who were mostly in first year . |
| 2 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 3 | They were not at first acute and Celia supposed that they could be due to indigestion and therefore a false alarm . |
| 4 | Since superficially there seemed to be no obvious grammatical blunders , and the vocabulary was not obviously faulty , the ingredients of this foreignness were not at first apparent . |
| 5 | Its functions were not at first regarded by the courts with much enthusiasm . |
| 6 | So great was the devestation that rescue workers were not at first sure how many vehicles were involved . |
| 7 | Their line and length was immaculate and after 16 overs Park were still in first gear on 28 for one . |
| 8 | It were n't at first but it is now |
| 9 | The gear were n't in first |
| 10 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 11 | Publications of this sort broke sharply with the anonymity and complete immunity from public scrutiny which had hitherto marked foreign offices , and were therefore at first greeted in them with doubt or hostility . |
| 12 | I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember . |
| 13 | In the standard account of the party 's growth into a modern political organisation over the period 1910–24 , McKibbin ( 1974 ) concludes that the war was not of first importance to its ultimate rise to power : |
| 14 | Even when the conflict entered the public domain , the significance of what came to be described as ‘ The Scandal of Tyndale ’ was not at first apparent . |
| 15 | It was not at first shared by most serf-owners in the provinces , or indeed by most of the great landowners among senior officials . |
| 16 | Perhaps I was not at first sight the most employable of people . |
| 17 | He envisaged a restoration of commercial activity on the canals , and was not at first sympathetic to their conversion into a leisure amenity . |
| 18 | The organization of this was not at first easily accepted by every member of staff . |
| 19 | It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus . |
| 20 | In St Petersburg in 1789 the French ambassador was publicly congratulated by the Grand Duke Alexander ( later Alexander I ) on the fall of the Bastille , while Alexander 's younger brother the Grand Duke Constantine , who was later to become an extreme reactionary , was also at first an enthusiastic partisan of the Revolution . |
| 21 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |
| 22 | The talk with the chief accountant in his plush office was n't at first revealing . |
| 23 | It was n't at first , |