Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 2 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 3 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | National governments and international organisations were among the first institutions to adopt electronic processing of large datasets ( e.g. census data , tax records ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 8 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 9 | It is therefore a moving thought that the rivermen were among the first people in the modern countryside business to begin to stop and think a little harder about what they were actually doing . |
| 10 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 11 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 12 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science , and particularly for scientific research . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 17 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 18 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 19 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 20 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 21 | Women with children were in the first buses . |
| 22 | The Greek philosophers were among the first to grapple with language . |
| 23 | Renault , for example , pioneered extension of annual holiday rights in France ( Anastassopoulos 1981 : 109–11 ) , while state industries were among the first to introduce ‘ contrattazione articolata aziendale ’ ( i.e. formal plant level bargaining ) in Italy in the early 1960s ( Martinelli 1981 : 94 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 26 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 27 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 28 | Park Royal employees were among the first people to see the Taste Sensation . |
| 29 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |