Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you were right the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 3 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 4 | He said the changes were only the first step in a longer plan for the building , a former cinema . |
| 5 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 6 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 7 | But these fourth-century ‘ apparatchiks ’ , the men of the age of Eubulus ( p. 245 ) , were not the first Athenians to gain power by boring work on committees . |
| 8 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 9 | They were discovered in a search for diuretics , i.e. drugs which increase the volume of urine , and were not the first diuretics to have additional valuable properties . |
| 10 | Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes . |
| 11 | These , it was thought , were just the first countries on the list . |
| 12 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 13 | The Scots were also the first home union to introduce a fully competitive league programme , which they did in season 1973/74 . |
| 14 | We were also the first sponsor of televised croquet in association with Granada TV and we have since launched a competition to stimulate schools involvement in this fascinating sport . |
| 15 | There were also the first beginnings of an Islamic nationalism in the Russian Middle East . |
| 16 | We were also the first place in southern Africa to be converted to Christianity , and different religious beliefs of all kinds already thrive there . |
| 17 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | I think the work he has done here is incredible really , the West Riding under his care were probably the first Authority to start a collection of pictures to be bought for circulating in the schools . |
| 19 | Whereas the octagonal panelled grids from Leicester were probably the first mosaics in their " substantial group " , it seems that mosaics B and C from North Hill , and the more stylised mosaic 7 , from Verulamium , post-date the three other mosaics in this group . |
| 20 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 21 | But the civil service structure of broadcasting did not allow such people to be employed on a full-time basis , and when funds were short the fees paid to freelance contributors of this kind were often the first items to be cut . |
| 22 | They were really the first nudes that he had done since Jane Birkin posed topless in the Sixties . |
| 23 | Giants were reputedly the first people to colonise the British Isles . |
| 24 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 25 | Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children . |
| 26 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 27 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
| 28 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 29 | It was wonderful , the shops were excellent , it was only the first day of our holiday and I had spent most of my money . |
| 30 | Taking the lifeboat out of the narrow harbour entrance into the face of 100-knot winds was only the first hazard . |