Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 2 | Watkins himself was the first to attempt some sort of statistical assessment . |
| 3 | In January we were the first union to issue briefing notes on all six key health and safety regulations enacted at the beginning of the year we were the only trade union to put on a stand at the EuroSafe ninety three exhibition which was the main exhibition of the European year of health and safety this promoted the union 's approach to health and safety . |
| 4 | I am also grateful to Brian Watkins who was the first to put the idea to me that drama is a game . |
| 5 | ‘ — Arnold Bros , the store here in Blackbury which was the first of the Arnold chain and the basis of the multi-million trad … ing group . |
| 6 | It was Rose who was the first to break away . |
| 7 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |
| 8 | There are ten volumes of Ruskin , " The Education Library " by Amos Comenius who was the first to illustrate childrens ' books , " English Prose Style " by Herbert Read and J. S. Fletcher " Bowmont and Fletcher . " |
| 9 | It is interesting that Gilman and Goodman themselves were the first to discover an effective anticancer drug . |
| 10 | He endorsed the Aria John Pearse which was the first of the Japanese acoustics and was available in two sizes : Dreadnoughtish and 00'ish . |
| 11 | erm But there was this great gap and I think had the civil war not come , the dean of Christchurch who was the first of the two Fells , would have probably finished that building then . |
| 12 | The first was the introduction of the Apple Macintosh which was the first personal computer to be based entirely on a graphical interface as opposed to the more conventional character-at-a-time systems . |
| 13 | Sir William Douglas , who was in command here until the Regent arrived , held the opinion that Galloway itself was the first objective . |
| 14 | Davis himself was the first to notice the mist that rolled towards them . |
| 15 | Outside London we were the first L E A to realise that this would be necessary . |
| 16 | In April there was the first deficit on the visible trade account for 10 years ; for the first four months of 1991 the deficit was DM12,000 million ( compared with a surplus for 1990 as a whole of DM77,000 million ) . |