Example sentences of "['s] was the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St. Saviour 's was the first church in this country to be specially dedicated to use by deaf people and was the crowning achievement of the Rev. Samuel Smith , the first clergyman ordained to minister entirely to the deaf . |
| 2 | Sainsbury 's was the first company to develop a range of cleaning products — Greencare — specifically formulated with the environment in mind . |
| 3 | Sainsbury 's was the first retailer to eliminate CFCs from its own brand aerosols . |
| 4 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 5 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 6 | St Nicholas ' was the first example in Prague of the late Italianate style of Baroque . |