Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major industry initiative was launched by the HCIMA at its annual lunch last month when several operating companies and educational institutes , including Compass , Forte , Copthorne Hotels , Universities of Brighton and Surrey and Chichester College were among the first signatories of a new Charter agreement which will strengthen employer/education links within the industry . |
| 2 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 3 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 4 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 5 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 6 | Eva and her emergency team were amongst the first on the scene taking in food and clothing , and assessing the need for financial aid to help rebuild the shattered homes and schools . |
| 7 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 8 | The weekend 's other draw was in the First , between the upstarts and the fallen mighty . |
| 9 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 10 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 11 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 12 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 13 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 14 | ONE of the youngest potential victims of Chester 's tuberculosis scare was among the first to be tested for the disease yesterday . |
| 15 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 16 | Or s Pit was about the first one I seen w that had the that had baths pit head baths in this corner . |
| 17 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 18 | The sitting-room was on the first floor , above the garage , with a picture window overlooking a small park . |
| 19 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 20 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 21 | The North Thameside petroleum traffic was among the first to have its own train crew and dedicated fleet of locomotives . |
| 22 | Crawford 's next film role was in the first Anglo-Swedish production , Two Living , One Dead . |
| 23 | And retired soldiers from his army were among the first of the century 's numerous British settlers in Pau . |
| 24 | In China jade was from the first shaped for symbolic rather than industrial ends . |
| 25 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
| 26 | For the Australian army was among the first , if not the first , Allied service taking up the commando idea , even though they already had nearly four divisions overseas . |
| 27 | The only major variation in training was during the first ten days before a new season , when players were not allowed to kick a ball . |
| 28 | ‘ Len had a poor League record , but unlike many of the others his reign was in the first division . |
| 29 | Scotmid was among the first in the field to introduce bar-code readers to their store checkouts , and the use of computer stocktaking brings them soundly into the 1990s . |
| 30 | Can you give some idea as to what the er , can you give some idea as to what the underlying sales growth was in the first half ? |