Example sentences of "was [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | STOP PRESS The Shearwater jacket was part of the first prize in our Rohan competition in the June issue , but unfortunately the colours reproduced badly . |
| 2 | AFTERNOON tea with Lord Wedgwood at a top London hotel was part of the first prize in an Australian TV network competition , |
| 3 | The Diploma in Industrial Administration was part of the first batch of national developments and was completed in the Summer of 1989 . |
| 4 | ‘ Oase ’ , one of three posters to play on the signature initial of the brand name , was part of the first stage of the new campaign which significantly improved Asbach 's performance in the second half of the year |
| 5 | Greaves was employed by Sir Henry Pierrepoint whose wife , Frances Cavendish , was sister of the first earl and cousin to Michael 's father . |
| 6 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 7 | It was murder of the first degree . |
| 8 | MILLWALL shares were floated at 20p in 1989 when the club was second in the First Division . |
| 9 | In 1963 , however , Clark was champion for the first time , after winning a record seven rounds , and at 27 he became the youngest-ever world champion . |
| 10 | They argued that decentralization could not be divorced from the increasing pressures which industry was facing , nor indeed from deindustrialization itself : that while location factors might indicate why movement took place from area A to area B rather than from area Y to area Z ( though the technical arguments above disputed even that ) , they gave no help in explaining why there was movement in the first place . |
| 11 | In October Tacoma was host to the first North American conference on needle exchanges ; the participants studied European programmes , including one in Wales where the chemist 's department of a supermarket serves as a needle-exchange centre . |
| 12 | Although he was only one of the four Sergeants in charge of us , he was Duty-Sergeant for the first week , so that all the complexities of dealing with a group of recruits at the start of their training fell to him . |
| 13 | The focal point for the exclusive society that was Everton in the first half of the nineteenth century was St George 's church , which was built in 1814 to the designs of Thomas Rickman ; it was the first church in the world to use cast iron extensively . |
| 14 | There was discussion after the first night between the Welsh interpreters , Rheinallt Williams and David Sheppard . |
| 15 | Just how good a choreographer was Bournonville in the first place ? |
| 16 | Anyway , she 's not likely to have run away without old Tabby here , especially as that was why H.B. was cross in the first place . |