Example sentences of "[was/were] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight these changes were the first signs of Sjögren 's syndrome . |
| 2 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 3 | The published accounts of these journeys and the plants found , 250 in Kent and 72 more in Hampstead , were the first records of the herborising expeditions which were to become a regular part of the Apprentices ' training in botany . |
| 4 | The Sun agreements were the first part of a strategy devised by Adobe 's four month-old Display Products Group to take the Unix field by storm — and there remains the Interactive Systems Unix side of Sun 's business to be mopped up , Ybarra reminds us . |
| 5 | We were the first back into the changing-rooms and we dumped our holsters and visors on the folding table near the door . |
| 6 | The light , well-drained chalk downs of Wiltshire , the Cotswolds , Yorkshire , and Lincolnshire were the first areas of the country to be farmed . |
| 7 | Trilobites were the first creatures on earth to develop high-definition eyes . |
| 8 | The 1980s , he notes , were the first decade in history in which there was no increase in the area of land farmed and — also for the first time — a fall in the amount of fresh water used per capita . |
| 9 | Likewise , most closures by multi-plant firms in ‘ assisted areas ’ after 1977 were the first closures by the respective firms in this country and in that product heading . |
| 10 | There were the first hints in the late 1950s of American balance of payments problems , and these strengthened the calls for higher tariffs . |
| 11 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 12 | Neil Blender and Billy Ruff were the first pros from the States to skate the ramp . |
| 13 | Emily and her husband , and little Alexander were the first residents at No 28 . |
| 14 | In the evening they went walking , hand in hand , as if it were the first love for each of them . |
| 15 | They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House . |
| 16 | What are now her Remains were the First fruits of her Studies … |
| 17 | This parallels the trampling experiment described above where the skulls were the first element to be broken . |
| 18 | Cissé , who was also Kérékou 's soothsayer , and nine other defendants were the first members of the former regime to face criminal charges . |
| 19 | The hits that were the first choices on every juke box between 1956 and 1964 nostalgia-soaked favourites from rock 's bright young stars . |
| 20 | These were the first premises in Britain to mass-produce photographs , using a factory system . |
| 21 | Two stretcher bearers were the first casualties of the industrious Mr de Loza for making gestures at the offical , and Valencia manager Guus Hiddink saw yellow and red in quick succession . |
| 22 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 23 | These were the first elections since the overthrow of President Mengistu Haile Mariam in May 1991 and the establishment of a transitional government in July 1991 ; a general election was still scheduled for 1993 . |
| 24 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 25 | These were the first tests with the camera , and were encouraging ; a suitable refinement of the technique should discriminate quite well between different sizes of plant . |
| 26 | The talks , hosted by the UN and held in San Lorenzo de El Escorial , 50 km from the Spanish capital Madrid , were the first negotiations in three decades of conflict . |
| 27 | Inside , under flickering rushlight , on a long wooden table scrubbed to whiteness , were the first trays of crusty bread . |
| 28 | His words emerged from silence , as if they were the first words of the evening . |
| 29 | ‘ Look what Mr Dobson gave me ! ’ were the first words from the little girl as Lisa had hurried through her next-door neighbour Josey 's front door . |
| 30 | Leeds were the first club to be thrown out of Europe . |