Example sentences of "there [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life by that time had appeared on land above sea level , and there were the first plants and terrestrial invertebrates . |
| 2 | But down in the Aldwych was the London School of Economics , where there were the first stirrings of student revolt , English-style , and to which the medical student often made his way . |
| 3 | There were the first hints in the late 1950s of American balance of payments problems , and these strengthened the calls for higher tariffs . |
| 4 | The red robe they gave her there was the first bright colour she had worn . |
| 5 | Yes , and there was the first of the three dead cows . |
| 6 | Academically , there was the first ever born deaf person to become a barrister , and the deaf world also produced one of the best-known and famous biblical scholars ever . |
| 7 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 8 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 9 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 10 | The scaffold there was the first thing I clapped my eyes on when we entered the stinking streets of Paris . |
| 11 | In April there was the first deficit on the visible trade account for 10 years ; for the first four months of 1991 the deficit was DM12,000 million ( compared with a surplus for 1990 as a whole of DM77,000 million ) . |
| 12 | A month later on the twenty fourth of May nineteen eighty eight , there was the first of a series of operations to correct deformities of both feet and the left wrist . |