Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 2 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 3 | Two years later St Sava was created the first Bishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church by the Patriarch of Byzantium . |
| 4 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 5 | Anyway , my worst fears about Barny were confirmed the first time I tried to put a leash on him . |
| 6 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 7 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 8 | Osbern 's next service to the revival of the old observances after his return from Bec was to write the first coherent Life of Dunstan . |
| 9 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 10 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 11 | Zambia 's balance of payments situation steadily worsened after 1975 , and by 1978 the IMF was arranging the first of a series of standby facilities , and one extended fund facility ( 1981–83 ) . |
| 12 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 13 | While such behaviour can not be condoned , an occasional show of controlled passion from England 's bowlers would not have gone amiss on the same ground when Australia were winning the first Test . |
| 14 | IT is unbelievable that in 1970 , during our formative years , only 30 undergraduates were awarded the first general degree of the University , at a ceremony in Pathfoot . |
| 15 | John Young was elected the first honorary Director , and the BDA agreed to provide the administration for the time being . |
| 16 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 17 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 18 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 19 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 20 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 21 | Her plans were overthrown the first day when the president requested that she should be chaplain . |
| 22 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the seaside resorts were undergoing the first stages of the process that was to transform the seaside holiday from an exclusive upper-class recreation into a national institution . |
| 23 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 24 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 25 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 26 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 27 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 28 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 29 | While Dorothy was making the first entries in her journal that new year Coleridge continued to write poetry with undiminished fluency , both at Stowey and Alfoxden . |
| 30 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |