Example sentences of "were the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 2 | The Sun agreements were the first part of a strategy devised by Adobe 's four month-old Display Products Group to take the Unix field by storm — and there remains the Interactive Systems Unix side of Sun 's business to be mopped up , Ybarra reminds us . |
| 3 | We were the first back into the changing-rooms and we dumped our holsters and visors on the folding table near the door . |
| 4 | The 1980s , he notes , were the first decade in history in which there was no increase in the area of land farmed and — also for the first time — a fall in the amount of fresh water used per capita . |
| 5 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 6 | In the evening they went walking , hand in hand , as if it were the first love for each of them . |
| 7 | They were the first couple in parliamentary history to sit on a front bench together in either House . |
| 8 | This parallels the trampling experiment described above where the skulls were the first element to be broken . |
| 9 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 10 | Leeds were the first club to be thrown out of Europe . |
| 11 | The balance of trade in manufacturing swung from a surplus of £2.75 billion in 1979 to a deficit in 1984 of £3.75 billion and the years 1983 and 1984 were the first time in history that Britain 's trade balance was in the red on manufactures . |
| 12 | Isolated primary non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma of the oesophagus seems to be exceptionally rare ; in both reported cases , oesophageal lesions were the first manifestation of the disease . |
| 13 | We were the first farm in the area , I think , to make silage . |
| 14 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |