Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably Schoenberg was the first to exploit this system in his Chamber Symphony Op. 9 ( 1906 ) . |
| 2 | Then Frankenstein was the first R. & D. man . |
| 3 | Carry On Nurse was the first sequel , the first picture to demonstrate that the Carry On Sergeant formula could be transferred . |
| 4 | That is why Britain was the first country to give £20 million worth of feed grain . |
| 5 | There was the brief glory of the 1820s , when Greece was the first part of south-eastern Europe to break free from the Turks , and high-minded liberals all over Europe thought they were seeing the rebirth of Periclean Athens . |