Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that Champagne was not the first sparkling wine : references in the Bible like ‘ wine … when it moveth itself ’ ( Proverbs 23:31 ) and ‘ Neither do men put new wine into old bottles ; else the bottles break ’ ( Matthew 9:17 ) confirm the existence of sparkling wine long before viticulture was even introduced to the Champagne region . |
| 2 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 3 | He was not the first black to play in a tournament sponsored by the American P.G.A . |
| 4 | The " Vouillé " campaign was not the first Frankish invasion of Visigothic Aquitaine . |
| 5 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 6 | Bush was not the first senior industry figure to be left dumbstruck by the single-minded approach Kylie and her advisers were taking . |
| 7 | Laura was not the first English designer with a puritanical streak . |
| 8 | Eadric Streona 's raid on St David 's in 1012 was not the first English incursion of Æthelred 's reign , and Cnut had been opposed by Welsh allies of Edmund Ironside in 1016 , and felt it necessary to settle several Scandinavian earls in the west midlands , one of whom , Eglaf , ravaged Dyfed in 1022 ; it is Welsh , not English , sources which record his flight from England after Cnut 's death . |
| 9 | Nicholas was not the first Scottish star who has made the error of moving to London in the belief that the terraces are paved with gold . |
| 10 | There had been an English career Consul in Madeira since 1658 ( although this was not the first foreign consulate ) , and by 1680 there were ten English wine-shippers in the island . |
| 11 | The BBC was not the first public corporation and by no means the last . |
| 12 | It was not the first British Empire . |
| 13 | This was not the first false alarm designed to draw the police into an ambush , although no one had been ambushed so far . |
| 14 | It was n't the first such attack . |
| 15 | Archie was n't the first drunk man he 'd driven home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 16 | The Traction Avant — driven famously by Maigret — was n't the first front-wheel-drive car , but its demountable engine/drive system made it workable , sort of . |