Example sentences of "[was/were] the first [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 2 | It was the first question usually . ’ |
| 3 | That was the first battalion again . |
| 4 | But it was the first drug generally recognized as life saving in tuberculosis . |
| 5 | He was the first man ever to enter The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London after TODAY smuggled him in . |
| 6 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 7 | Ola Barthelsson was the first man home so the Sailing Challenge was set to be an all Swedish affair . |
| 8 | Malcolm was really into doing good window displays for the shop , often influenced by the ones Mr Green used to do for his Vince 's Man 's Shop in Soho — which was the first boutique ever , bringing faded blue denim and hipster trousers to the British public in the fifties . |
| 9 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 10 | DataFocus was the first company ever to move the Posix interface to a non-Unix operating system , in this case Unisys ' CTOS . |
| 11 | That particular guy was the first person out , then I was just about the second out . |
| 12 | ‘ Carronade ’ was the first boat home , but ‘ Blush ’ and the First Europe ‘ Fraggle ’ ( Michael Nash CYC ) together and breathing down her neck less than two minutes behind put paid to any idea of victory for Peter Clements ( WMYC ) , and ‘ Blush ’ secured her second trophy of the weekend by a comfortable margin . |
| 13 | I was the first woman ever into one of the famous gay bars . |
| 14 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 15 | Lawrence , 41 , who had been elected to the legislature in 1986 after an outstanding academic career , was the first woman ever to hold the office of Australian state premier . |
| 16 | Ogata , 63 , was the first woman ever to head a major UN agency . |
| 17 | It was the first step away from the old gladiatorial techniques . |
| 18 | Polis life was further advanced there — Pindar speaks of ‘ the cities ’ of the Aleuads — and Greek inscriptions go back to earlier dates ( extant ones start c .550 , L. H. Jeffery ( 1961 ) Local Scripts of Archaic Greece , p. 98 , no. 1 , a sacred law ; and Pausanias ( x. 16 ) says that a statue dedicated by a Thessalian called Echekratidas was the first dedication ever made at Delphi ) . |
| 19 | No that was the first time round |
| 20 | It was the first time as far as she could remember that any male person had done so since she left the convent school , where the visiting priest would call all the girls by their first names . |
| 21 | ‘ We made it up between us , ’ she said , ‘ and it was the first time ever we two met outside these walls . |
| 22 | going down the right ? , five years old down the river was the first time ever but just have to wait for him ! |
| 23 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 24 | No , I do n't know Alf , I ca n't remember if he was the first goalkeeper ever to throw a ball out to a player but , er if you want to ring up , tell you what you want to do , you want to ring up if you 're around , between twelve and one , and discuss that with Pete Murray , and Tony Lockwood , for , when they have the sport back on Talkback , and er , that of course , is the specialist sportsperson 's hour , and er , they may be able to throw a bit of light on that . |
| 25 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |