Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 2 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 3 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 4 | Ltd were on the first floor of a substantial building , near Allhallows Church . |
| 5 | Her next appointment in 1942 was as the first educational psychologist employed by the education committee of the city of Edinburgh . |
| 6 | And the fair was on the first of October . |
| 7 | That was during the First World War , I should be I suppose about five then . |
| 8 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 9 | ‘ THAT WAS with the first line-up , Santiago Durango and Jeff Bazadi . |
| 10 | That was on the first day . |
| 11 | Even the dog was asleep , and that was in the first five minutes . |
| 12 | Most were within the first three years of taking out a mortgage and among people who bought property early in 1988 on over-generous terms that stretched monthly payments to the limits . |
| 13 | He made an immediate impression and by 4 December 1640 was on the first committee . |