Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 2 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 3 | It thus offered a form of compensatory training for them and made no attempt to try to alter the racist structures and attitudes in the labour market by which they were disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 4 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 5 | Faecal SCFA concentrations were low on the first day of diarrhoea ( mean ( SEM ) 9.9 ( 5.8 ) mmol/kg ) and increased to 94.8 ( 16.4 ) mmol/kg by the fifth day . |
| 6 | Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced . |
| 7 | The eggs were clear for the first two or three days , after which the developing fish were clearly visible inside . |
| 8 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 9 | The Merseyside club were top of the First Division , heading towards the FA Cup Final , and in the European Cup semi-final . |
| 10 | When I came here at first , the side were top of the First Division , but there was no apparent feeling for the game . |
| 11 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 12 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 13 | More particularly , attacks on players and match officials were predominant before the First World War , whilst fights between opposing fan groups are predominant today ’ ( Dunning , 1990:76 ) . |
| 14 | In 1933 the Nazis increased their number of seats on the Volkstag to 38 , and were present for the first time in sufficient numbers to have an effect on the business and workings of the chamber . |
| 15 | They were present at the first national meeting of indigenous press that we organised in June 1991 , and armed men visit the premises of Etnias magazine without warning . |
| 16 | Helen and Tony were married on the first Saturday in October . |
| 17 | 46 unqualified mature students were involved in the first study at the University of Sheffield . |
| 18 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 19 | They were all on the first floor Mark . |
| 20 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 21 | Kilmarnock were unlucky in the first half when Gus McPherson hit the crossbar , but goals from Paul Harvey and Craig Flannigan after the break gave Clydebank the points . |
| 22 | ‘ Given that there were many at the first party , fewer at the second and fewest at the last , how many people were there at each of the three parties , not including me ? ’ |
| 23 | Their expeditions recalled the all-male cultural sprees which were commonplace before the first war … |
| 24 | You were loose in the first chukka , so were you , Patrick . ’ |
| 25 | A notice in the porch stated that the church-keys were available from the first house in the village . |
| 26 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 27 | The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland . |
| 28 | Glass membrane potentiometric electrodes were one of the first to be used as part of enzyme electrodes , typically for monitoring of pH in hydrolase catalysed reactions — eg urea assays . |
| 29 | The Carthaginians were one of the first to set the trend when they founded Ibiza in 654 BC . |
| 30 | When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder . |