Example sentences of "was [adv] the first [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was ‘ a foreign substance which can be felt by touch under the skin of the neck ’ , which was presumably the first and fatal bullet fired by Abbas Mohamed . |
| 2 | Newton was not the first or the only great scientific thinker of the time . |
| 3 | It was indeed the first and most urgent measure of good , and they breathed the more easily for it ; but they read in the tone no less the failure of his mission . |
| 4 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 5 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |