Example sentences of "[noun pl] were among the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 2 | National governments and international organisations were among the first institutions to adopt electronic processing of large datasets ( e.g. census data , tax records ) . |
| 3 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 4 | It is therefore a moving thought that the rivermen were among the first people in the modern countryside business to begin to stop and think a little harder about what they were actually doing . |
| 5 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science , and particularly for scientific research . |
| 7 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 8 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 9 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 10 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 11 | The Greek philosophers were among the first to grapple with language . |
| 12 | Renault , for example , pioneered extension of annual holiday rights in France ( Anastassopoulos 1981 : 109–11 ) , while state industries were among the first to introduce ‘ contrattazione articolata aziendale ’ ( i.e. formal plant level bargaining ) in Italy in the early 1960s ( Martinelli 1981 : 94 ) . |
| 13 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 14 | Park Royal employees were among the first people to see the Taste Sensation . |