Example sentences of "they were [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 2 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 3 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 4 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 5 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 6 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 7 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 8 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 9 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 11 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
| 12 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 13 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 14 | Three of them were among the first to be evacuated by the Red Cross from the notorious Banja Luka camp . |
| 15 | Two of them were among the first documentaries to be made about the war , and thus have considerable historical importance . |