Example sentences of "they were the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because they were the first in the field , or more probably for deeply rooted socio-political reasons , the classicists have never been seriously challenged — theories have come and theories have gone but the belief in the control function of management has remained — even more so at the level of practice than of theory , although at that level , some insights can be gained . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ They were the first people here , before the people of Amantani . |
| 4 | They were the first known tamers of animals . |
| 5 | They were the first to say that they would prefer to trust all this to people who knew something about education . |
| 6 | They were the first big fish I tried to catch when I decided to be more selective with my fishing , and when I did catch a big chub on my first attempt it set the scene for my present angling outlook . |
| 7 | They were the first of thousands of Tiller Girls who would feel like crawling home after rehearsals . |
| 8 | Surprisingly , they were the first comets found from Britain this century . |
| 9 | His words emerged from silence , as if they were the first words of the evening . |
| 10 | They were the first molluscs ( such as clams , snails and octopuses ) and arthropods ( insects and crabs ) , and were halfway between being single-celled organisms and a complete colony of cells . |
| 11 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
| 12 | But our whole band have been to college — they were the first people in our familiar to have been able to get any further education . |
| 13 | They were the first ones to invent free love . ’ |
| 14 | They were innovators in that they were the first ones who did n't try to represent the melody as written . |
| 15 | They were the first country to organise an international sevens tournament , which they did to celebrate their Centenary in 1973 . |
| 16 | The great task , for someone such as Cis , was to make of her own house — a three-bedroom semi-detached in which they were the first occupiers — a place of comfort and gleaming triumph against the odds . |
| 17 | They were the first in . |
| 18 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 19 | They were the first enemy troops he had ever seen and the sight of them had made him go pale . |
| 20 | They were the first television generation , being introduced to the man who would use television better than any other politician . ’ |
| 21 | They were the first amphibians and they too were carnivorous . |
| 22 | They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer . |
| 23 | Svetlana and her mother made a genuine impression on me because they were the first woman and child to arrive here from Poland . |
| 24 | They were the first to extend the realm of the precious to include substances of mineral origin . |
| 25 | They were the first such images she had seen — the Grimauds , like many Nîmois , were staunchly Protestant . |
| 26 | They were the first motor sledges in the Antarctic — the first on earth . |
| 27 | The visit to the Brewery Company presented no problems , and they were in and out of the office within half an hour ; when they went into the chop-house on the stroke of twelve , they were the first customers . |
| 28 | It was their loss , believe me , and they were the first to admit my work was never affected . |
| 29 | They were the first |
| 30 | For these reasons , they were the first to have theories developed for them : gravity by Newton in the seventeenth century , and electromagnetism by Maxwell in the nineteenth century . |