Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half .
2 ‘ If resources were available the first priority would be to appoint a full-time personnel/training officer ’ .
3 When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers .
4 ‘ I mean , when you were a moral tutor , was that the first line ?
5 Was that the first hint , no more than a joke really , that they might stay at Wyvis Hall , that they might live there ?
6 Was this the first signs of a coalition in the making ?
7 Was this the first signs of narcissism ?
8 And was this the first sign of the nightmare to come ?
9 Was this the first time ? ’
10 I mean I was shocked the first time when I went
11 Even I was terrified the first time it happened , when Art rolled over to our table , gave Tod a kind of rabbit punch that almost broke his neck , and said , incredibly loudly ,
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