Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
| 2 | Sophie Parke was only the third child in Britain to receive two hearts in a piggy back style transplant . |
| 3 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 4 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 5 | Darwin was not the first to marvel but he made the notion of such adaptedness scientifically respectable by providing an explanation of how it might have come about . |
| 6 | Once the Lord Treasurer became a working officer the post was filled with trained administrators , although their intellectual training had been literary rather than numerate : Lionel Cranfield was probably the first really numerate Lord Treasurer . |
| 7 | Maastricht was not the last word on the development and future of Europe . |
| 8 | Barnes was perhaps the last of the great illiterates , one case in the mould of Brindley . |
| 9 | But Graham was also the first to observe a decline in Minton 's illustrative work in the 1950s . |
| 10 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |
| 11 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 12 | Arthur Wilson was also the first deaf Briton to own a car , ( in 1896 ) and competed in races not only in cars or on cycles , but also on motor bikes . |
| 13 | Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim . |
| 14 | The BBC was not the first public corporation and by no means the last . |
| 15 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 16 | The most senior member of the Reagan administration to be tried in connection with the Iran-contra case , Poindexter was also the first to receive a custodial sentence . |
| 17 | Bush was not the first senior industry figure to be left dumbstruck by the single-minded approach Kylie and her advisers were taking . |
| 18 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 19 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |
| 20 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 21 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 22 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 23 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 24 | Historians will want to examine whether Mr Clinton was really the first choice of those new Democrats , or merely stepped into a breach when others , such as Sam Nunn , a senator from Georgia , or Al Gore , now the vice-president , were measured and found wanting . |
| 25 | Murdock was not the first to realise that the gas given off by heated coal could be burnt . |
| 26 | Cook was not the first to put the idea into practice however ; circular notes were first seen in an organized system invented by Robert Herries in 1772 . |
| 27 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 28 | Piaget was not the first to draw our attention to the fact that children 's behaviour is different from mature adult behaviour . |
| 29 | This type of discourse — free indirect speech or free indirect style — is peculiar to the novel ; it makes its appearance in the late eighteenth century and Jane Austen was probably the first novelist to realise its full potential . |
| 30 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |