Example sentences of "was [noun sg] [prep] the 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 | It was murder of the first degree . |
| 7 | MILLWALL shares were floated at 20p in 1989 when the club was second in the First Division . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was discussion after the first night between the Welsh interpreters , Rheinallt Williams and David Sheppard . |
| 12 | 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 . |