Example sentences of "[was/were] the [num ord] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because they were the first in the field , or more probably for deeply rooted socio-political reasons , the classicists have never been seriously challenged — theories have come and theories have gone but the belief in the control function of management has remained — even more so at the level of practice than of theory , although at that level , some insights can be gained . |
| 2 | ‘ We were the first in the country to supply pre-installed networks , ’ says Mr Spiro , ‘ and all Elonex PCs come as a complete plug-in system with Windows 3.1 as standard . ’ |
| 3 | Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross . |
| 4 | The approach also has precedents among other women who were the first in their fields , and has been adopted in feminist work like that of Friedan and Greer . |
| 5 | Set in the pretty Lanarkshire town of Biggar the gasworks were the last in Scotland , now preserved for future generations to show how this once thriving industry provided gas for both private homes and street lighting . |
| 6 | The red bitch was the seventh in a line of dogs that had belonged to Kalchu 's family since his grandfather had brought the first one back from Tibet some forty years previously . |
| 7 | The experimental model at Dounreay , in Scotland , was the first in the world , in 1959 , to become operational . |
| 8 | It was the first in a series of brutal references to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which Hitler came to make during the following years . |
| 9 | The Jesuit college here was the first in Germany ( 1555 ) . |
| 10 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 11 | The Danish Green Cotton label Novotex , available at Next , was the first in Europe to invest in such a plant . |
| 12 | The campanile was the first in the city to have a clock that struck the hours ( although that of the church of Sant' Eustorgio was the first to have had a clock , in 1306 ) In its lower part the campanile is square , but it soon becomes octagonal , rising in elegant brickwork tiers separated by delicate friezes . |
| 13 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 14 | In Johannesburg , actually in the mining camp at Ferreira 's Town , Frederick and Belle opened an hotel , which according to Robin Cranko was the first in the locality . |
| 15 | He was the first in a line of long-serving Chairmen , whose keen interest in the tramway contributed in no small measure to its success and survival . |
| 16 | Walden was the first in a line of great Chapman discoveries . |
| 17 | The Soviet debate of the 1920s was the first in history to face the problems of growth in a conscious manner , and they were not merely theoretical discussions since the results could have had a profound effect upon the actual outcome of events . |
| 18 | Emirates GC , the venue for the annual Dubal Desert Classic , was the first in the Gulf states , while the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club was due to open in October . |
| 19 | Habari ya Mwezi was the first in East Africa to employ an African editor : Samwil Sehoza was appointed to the post in 1908 . |
| 20 | YESTERDAY 'S crash was the first in which A300 Airbus passengers were killed or injured , according to the best-selling plane 's makers . |
| 21 | Gorß was the first in the DDR to follow the footsteps of Beuys along the path from painting to object art and the securing of evidence . |
| 22 | Sixteen years and one month later , Bunny Johnson became the fourth black boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt , the most coveted award in British boxing ( Randolph Turpin was the first in 1956 , Bunny Sterling the second in 1973 , Maurice Hope the third in 1976 ) . |
| 23 | Okay , so he did n't have a wife of his own — but of the wives of the men he knew , Elsa Lawrence was the first in line . |
| 24 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 25 | The 1924–25 series was the first in which the captains of each side had their birthdays while playing for their country . |
| 26 | Although this was not the first case in which this view had been taken , it was the first in which an appellate court had squarely addressed the point . |
| 27 | Du Cane was the first in a line of redoubtable and prominent penal administrators of the stature of Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise , Sir Alexander Paterson , and Sir Lionel Fox . |
| 28 | The portrait of Boyd Fortin was the first in Avedon 's project and in some ways set the tone and style of what was to come , linking the Western portraits to previous preoccupations . |
| 29 | Professor Dyos ' study of Camberwell was the first in a series of examinations which have enabled us to see how the ubiquitous terraced streets of our great cities were laid out and slowly built up in a highly complex way , for a whole series of social and economic reasons . |
| 30 | As it was , my brother William ( the novelist and poet ) was the first in our family to get to university . |