Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the recent British Library publication , ‘ The Emergence of the Electronic Book ’ ( BNB Research Fund Report 46 , 1990 ) , we saw how handheld electronic reference devices based on chip memories were already foreshadowing the first true electronic books . |
| 2 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 3 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 4 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 5 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 6 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 7 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 8 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 9 | There was no stopping the first , but the second ; well it was more to do with bad defence , than good attack . |
| 10 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |