Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 2 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 3 | Watkins himself was the first to attempt some sort of statistical assessment . |
| 4 | First was the newly energised Bedford-St Pancras route which was the first home of forty-eight four-car Class 317s . |
| 5 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |
| 6 | Er , on the first day that I joined this Council which was the first day that you joined er Councillor . |
| 7 | Lawrence 's views on brown dominions owed something to his intimacy with Lionel Curtis , the indefatigable imperial publicist who was the first person to think seriously about the idea of a multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was the Dwarf merchants trading for fur , charcoal or mineral ore who were the first to deal with men on a regular basis . |
| 9 | In January we were the first union to issue briefing notes on all six key health and safety regulations enacted at the beginning of the year we were the only trade union to put on a stand at the EuroSafe ninety three exhibition which was the main exhibition of the European year of health and safety this promoted the union 's approach to health and safety . |
| 10 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 11 | I am also grateful to Brian Watkins who was the first to put the idea to me that drama is a game . |
| 12 | After the war she was the first woman to hold a Commercial Pilots Licence , although she had difficulty finding a job . |
| 13 | After the war she was the first woman to hold a Commercial Pilots Licence , although she had difficulty finding a job . |
| 14 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 15 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 16 | Other groups , like the Boys ' League of Honour and the Church Lads ' Brigade , addressed the leisure activities of working-class boys , setting up night schools and organizing sport and mutual improvement societies to counter the idleness which was the first step towards dissipation and self-abuse . |
| 17 | The Greens , who had demanded a number of concessions on environmental policies in particular , pledged external support to the new administration in an alliance which was the first of its kind in Australia . |
| 18 | May I take this opportunity to congratulate Hardley school in my constituency which was the first in Hampshire to achieve grant-maintained status ? |
| 19 | ‘ — Arnold Bros , the store here in Blackbury which was the first of the Arnold chain and the basis of the multi-million trad … ing group . |
| 20 | It was Rose who was the first to break away . |
| 21 | Since joining INCUBUS it was the first time he 'd come across men who carried guns — outside the States . |
| 22 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |
| 23 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 24 | The primary services — family doctors , dentists , pharmacists — are very much the front line of health care and in 1986 we published a Green Paper which was the first comprehensive review of the services for forty years . |
| 25 | There are ten volumes of Ruskin , " The Education Library " by Amos Comenius who was the first to illustrate childrens ' books , " English Prose Style " by Herbert Read and J. S. Fletcher " Bowmont and Fletcher . " |
| 26 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 27 | It is interesting that Gilman and Goodman themselves were the first to discover an effective anticancer drug . |
| 28 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 29 | He endorsed the Aria John Pearse which was the first of the Japanese acoustics and was available in two sizes : Dreadnoughtish and 00'ish . |
| 30 | King Alchfrith also built St. Peter 's church which was the first church in Stamford and all Mercia . |