Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not the first person to wonder about the secret of Harry Short 's success . |
| 2 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 3 | It was not the first temple on the site . |
| 4 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 5 | It was obvious at the time that this was not the first operation of its kind . |
| 6 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 7 | Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate . |
| 8 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 9 | Although this was not the first case in which this view had been taken , it was the first in which an appellate court had squarely addressed the point . |
| 10 | A new CDU-FDP combination had been considered but the FDP seemed fickle and unreliable : October 1966 was not the first occasion of course on which they had left the Cabinet . |
| 11 | This was not the first attack of this kind ; there had been another three-pronged assault the previous year in the Fao peninsula . |
| 12 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 13 | The Origin of Species was not the first book to suggest a natural explanation of how life has developed , but its publication in 1859 precipitated the debate that converted most people to evolutionism . |
| 14 | Besides , it was not the first disappointment . |
| 15 | This was not the first time that George had attempted a figurative animal sculpture . |
| 16 | It was not the first time the 48-year-old comedian and doctor had pooped the party . |
| 17 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
| 18 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |
| 19 | This was not the first time the elevator had startled her with its moods . |
| 20 | It was not the first time , but it was the worst . |
| 21 | Though Jan was not initially aware of it , this was not the first time they 'd been cast together . |
| 22 | This was not the first time my employer had raised such a question ; indeed , it seems to be something which genuinely troubles him . |
| 23 | It was not the first time he had seen such symptoms . |
| 24 | This was not the first time and , if he had survived , certainly would not have been the last . |
| 25 | This was not the first time I had dabbled in adultery . |
| 26 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 27 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 28 | It was not the first time that Orton , the veteran Malawi politician , had suffered this sort of torture . |
| 29 | For this was not the first time . |
| 30 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |