Example sentences of "was [adj] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | The quality of football was high in the first half . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 6 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 7 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 8 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Firstly , H pylori with homogeneously distributed chromatinic and cytoplasmic content within the bacterial body ( Fig 1 ) , which was associated with all the patterns of epithelial state and was seen in all the examined ultrastructural sections ; this pattern , however , was prominent in the first pattern of contact with gastric epithelium presenting normal looking epithelial cells . |
| 12 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 13 | Trevor Ford , the aggressive Welsh centre-forward , who had been signed for Sunderland as part of Ditchburn 's lavish spending programme ( earning Sunderland the name of ‘ The Bank of England club ’ ) , confirmed that abuse of the system was widespread in the First Division . |
| 14 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 15 | It was embarrassing in the first place . |
| 16 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
| 17 | A change in circumstances that could not have been predicted exactly does not mean that planning was incorrect in the first place . |
| 18 | Following this there may be discomfort on urination , and a vicious circle is started in which memory of previous discomfort combines with apprehension at the possibility of its recurring and perpetuates the nervousness or fear that was responsible in the first place . |
| 19 | then it would now be illegal with the addition of larger tyres ( assuming , of course , that the speedo was accurate in the first place ) . |
| 20 | An excess risk of gastric cancer was apparent in the first years after start of cimetidine use . |
| 21 | If this is the case ( and it can be tried with dropping several requirements each in turn ) then the requirement should be examined to see if was essential in the first place . |
| 22 | In order to identify any broad trends in the responses and to enable meaningful statistical information to be compiled , it was necessary in the first instance to assign answers to one of a limited number of categories . |
| 23 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 24 | New investment and realisation activity was muted in the first half-year , with the trust investing £2.1 million in the unlisted sector , compared to £3.8 million at this stage the year before . |