Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women with children were in the first buses . |
| 2 | In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree . |
| 3 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 5 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 6 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 7 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 8 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 9 | She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale . |
| 10 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 11 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 12 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 13 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 14 | Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they . |
| 15 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 16 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 17 | The fire , at Cragside , was in a first floor bedroom and was believed to be caused by electrical equipment overheating . |
| 18 | The weekend 's other draw was in the First , between the upstarts and the fallen mighty . |
| 19 | The menstrual taboo , originally presented and applied with explicit reference to maintaining the purity of the Temple and its cultic participants , was in the first century AD recast in terms of family law and the purity of marriage within the domestic unit . |
| 20 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 21 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 22 | He was in the first Section I was in . |
| 23 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
| 24 | Allan was in the first heat , again wearing his knee-length shorts — this time a pair of cut-down Nike tights . |
| 25 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |
| 26 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 27 | Even the dog was asleep , and that was in the first five minutes . |
| 28 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
| 29 | All the same , the Joyce family was in the first of many groups to endure the consequences of allegiance to an ousted imperial power . |
| 30 | It was in the first Easter vac that he produced The Table . |