Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's okay , if the premium was due on the first even though , if , if we 'd done the erm the recall before the status report runs it will show that as being in arrears ? |
| 2 | The concentration and output of SCFA in faeces was low on the first day of illness , but returned towards normal by the fifth day ( Table I ) . |
| 3 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , the enthusiasm was greatest in the first wave practices . |
| 5 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 6 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 7 | With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light . |
| 8 | But if it was many-one in the first place . |
| 9 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 11 | What was new in Althusser was that for the first time this epistemological tradition was developed for a Marxism . |
| 12 | The fourth key point was that for the first two years of the programme , between April 1989 and March 1991 , we committed a budget of £24 million to the programme . |
| 13 | The quality of football was high in the first half . |
| 14 | Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education . |
| 15 | The 22-year-old Edgar was clear of the first three horses she rode in a World Championship final style event . |
| 16 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 17 | The game had already been enlivened by a sumptuous Derrick Lee break-off scrum ball ( and a neat assist by Andrew Garry ) , therefore it was little co-incidence that the stand-off , who had enjoyed an adventurous afternoon , was instrumental in the first try . |
| 18 | The incorporation catalysed by Dcm ( open circles ) was linear for the first 25 min of the reaction . |
| 19 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 20 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 21 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 22 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | Look here — you 've done wrong twice over : what you said was wrong in the first place ; but then you failed to carry out your promise ! |
| 24 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 25 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 26 | On June 2 Stefano Rodota , president of the PDS and former Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies , resigned from both posts after he was unsuccessful in the first four ballots for Speaker . |
| 27 | Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring . |
| 28 | The pattern of the Lord 's match was similar to the first one . |
| 29 | This was standard with the First Church . |
| 30 | Blake was content for the first time in days . |