Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
| 2 | After being whacked six nil at Crewe Hereford needed a pick me up … the tonic was the first goal against Colchester an absolute gem … |
| 3 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 4 | The sentence was the first of its kind under an August 1991 law making the death penalty mandatory for blasphemy [ see p. 38393 ] . |
| 5 | He also opened fertile chicken eggs and concluded , falsely , that the heart was the first organ to develop . |
| 6 | The case was the first in which a former government minister was brought before a Swiss criminal court . |
| 7 | The case was the first review of random testing of federal employees and the first in which the court upheld testing which did not involve workers concerned with public safety . |
| 8 | The case was the first brought against nine extremists arrested in June 1990 in East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] and the first under 1989 legislation allowing milder sentences for those turning state 's evidence [ see p. 36046 for draft legislation ] . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the accord , the referendum was the first step in a process of transition which would lead to the establishment of the semi-autonomous Nunavut government and territory by April 1999 . |
| 10 | The election was the first to be called under the new Constitution , ratified by a popular referendum in August [ see p. 39042 ] , which reduced the power of the president . |
| 11 | The American silver sales at Christie 's , on 22 January , and at Sotheby 's on 28 January , seemed to confirm that the last area of the market to give way in the recession was the first to rebound . |
| 12 | The driver was the first to recover his scattered wits and went down the steps to comfort Marsh who was leaning against the tender side , shaking uncontrollably , his face ashen . |
| 13 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 14 | It was taken for granted that where the ‘ bucks ’ predominated , the stick was the first resort , and the law an afterthought . |
| 15 | The course was the first accountancy degree offered in Ireland and it is recognized by the accountancy bodies as a ‘ relevant degree ’ . |
| 16 | The soldier was the first to die along the Syrian-Israeli border since 1975 . |
| 17 | The engagement was the first occasion on which the US had admitted to the capture of enemy ground units inside Iraqi-controlled territory . |
| 18 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 19 | Introducing the report , which was eventually sponsored by 12 top companies , including BP , Hewlett Packard and ICI , Lord Caldecote said that the study was the first ‘ to present a student 's eye view of the ills and problems surrounding a career in engineering ’ . |
| 20 | Introducing the report , which was eventually sponsored by 12 top companies , including BP , Hewlett Packard and ICI , Lord Caldecote said that the study was the first ‘ to present a student 's eye view of the ills and problems surrounding a career in engineering ’ . |
| 21 | The study was the first to be conducted on one of Britain 's beaches which fails to meet European sewage pollution standards . |
| 22 | The Tokyo-based company refused to confirm the price , but said the deal was the first of ‘ a number of long-term investments in Britain' . |
| 23 | The dock was the first of its kind in Northern Britain and was wholly built within the High Water mark and measured five acres . |
| 24 | Although the Criterion was the first English periodical to print the work of Cocteau , Valery and Proust , it seems always to have been Eliot 's fate to espouse causes just at the point when they are about to disappear or to disintegrate . |
| 25 | There inside the den was the first of the cubs . |
| 26 | The cut was the first since rates were raised to record levels in October 1991 [ see p. 38533 ] , and followed a sharp decline in the annual inflation rate from a peak of 16.3 per cent in the first half of the year to 8.8 per cent at end-September . |
| 27 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 28 | The market for places in the sun was the first to be hit when high interest rates and the recession at home began to bite but , with mortgage rates now in single figures , people are once more looking abroad . |
| 29 | The welfare of the child was the first consideration and other tests had to be applied . |
| 30 | The conference was the first to be held by the union since the 1981 convention which had followed its first registration as a legal union [ see p. 31213 ] . |