Example sentences of "was [pron] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 2 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 3 | The creation of this magical vortex was one the first and greatest acts of the High Elf mages of Ulthuan . |
| 4 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 5 | ‘ Was he the first , Cal ? ’ |
| 6 | Was he the first to do it ? |
| 7 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 8 | From this sort of questioning , it is possible to draw conclusions about the impact of the ad — was it the first or second mentioned by most people , or did no one mention it at all ? |
| 9 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 10 | Even on what became its own home ground , however , the pluralist approach was not unchallenged , nor of course was it the first chronologically . |
| 11 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |