Example sentences of "were [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you were right the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 3 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 4 | He said the changes were only the first step in a longer plan for the building , a former cinema . |
| 5 | These , it was thought , were just the first countries on the list . |
| 6 | I see now that these were just the first skirmishes in a never-ending guerrilla war . |
| 7 | The Scots were also the first home union to introduce a fully competitive league programme , which they did in season 1973/74 . |
| 8 | We were also the first sponsor of televised croquet in association with Granada TV and we have since launched a competition to stimulate schools involvement in this fascinating sport . |
| 9 | There were also the first beginnings of an Islamic nationalism in the Russian Middle East . |
| 10 | We were also the first place in southern Africa to be converted to Christianity , and different religious beliefs of all kinds already thrive there . |
| 11 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | I think the work he has done here is incredible really , the West Riding under his care were probably the first Authority to start a collection of pictures to be bought for circulating in the schools . |
| 13 | Whereas the octagonal panelled grids from Leicester were probably the first mosaics in their " substantial group " , it seems that mosaics B and C from North Hill , and the more stylised mosaic 7 , from Verulamium , post-date the three other mosaics in this group . |
| 14 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 15 | But the civil service structure of broadcasting did not allow such people to be employed on a full-time basis , and when funds were short the fees paid to freelance contributors of this kind were often the first items to be cut . |
| 16 | They were really the first nudes that he had done since Jane Birkin posed topless in the Sixties . |
| 17 | Giants were reputedly the first people to colonise the British Isles . |
| 18 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 19 | Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children . |