Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion was the first vehicle for general thoughts about existence . |
| 2 | Many felt sympathy with Morrissey 's stance over this , but many did n't , preferring instead to follow Julie Burchill 's line that Bands Aid was the first record in the history of popular music that actually achieved a positive result ; that Band Aid made the likes of The Redskins quake in their Doc Marten 's and feel totally inconsequential . |
| 3 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 4 | A Colour Atlas of AIDS was the first book of its kind : written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain it comprehensively described in words and outstanding colour photography all aspects of this pandemic disease from epidemiology to transmission and prevention . |
| 5 | Murder was the first destroyer of privacy as it was of so much else . |
| 6 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 7 | In the patient with Hodgkin 's disease , isolated oesophageal lymphoma was the first relapse after a 13 year interval free of disease . |
| 8 | Horseradish was used for coughs and colds , wild strawberry for anaemia and nervousness and honeysuckle was the first example of aspirin . |
| 9 | The engagement was the first occasion on which the US had admitted to the capture of enemy ground units inside Iraqi-controlled territory . |
| 10 | Labour was the first party to introduce the idea of a Severn crossing — and of a tolled crossing , at that . |
| 11 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 12 | It occurs to me that the St-Germain-des Pres scene was the first bohemia to have become an immediate media success . |
| 13 | Mary Law was the first teacher to face this issue : |
| 14 | The first wave of Manichaeism swept over the Levant and Asia Minor in the third and fourth centuries — Bogomilism was the first manifestation of a neo-Manichaean movement which penetrated into southern and western Europe between the ninth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 15 | The Skills Audit was the first City Challenge project to get underway and the team carried out interviews in about 10,000 households in the area . |
| 16 | The air battle was the first time Allied planes have been forced to respond to a breach . |
| 17 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 18 | In the early 1970s , Habitat was the first retailing company to install electronic point of sale systems ( EPOS ) in its stock control department for the automatic replenishment of stocks . |
| 19 | Gin was the first alcohol I ever had . |
| 20 | I flunked the first question : ‘ On which circuit was the first Formula 1 world championship event held ? ’ |
| 21 | The Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry at Abbot Hall was the first winner ( in 1973 ) of the Museum of the Year Award . |
| 22 | The 1882 act was the first attempt at an effective conservation law in Britain ; it is the father of all the legislation which protects not just ancient monuments and historic buildings but also sites of scientific importance . |
| 23 | DataFocus was the first company ever to move the Posix interface to a non-Unix operating system , in this case Unisys ' CTOS . |
| 24 | The welfare of the child was the first consideration and other tests had to be applied . |
| 25 | This child was the first human , strung between two worlds — born of a prince and a sky goddess . |
| 26 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 27 | Its declarations required Catholic scholars to believe , for example , that Moses had written the Pentateuch , and that St Matthew 's Gospel was the first Gospel to be composed . |
| 28 | Schorne 's lavish new shrine was the first part of St George 's chapel , Windsor , to be built , in the prime south-east corner . |
| 29 | In the patient with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma , the oesophageal tumour was the first manifestation of lymphoma . |
| 30 | Her move three miles up river to Old Town was the first step in a gradual journey into the district of Okoyong and away from European settlement on the coast . |