Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 2 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 3 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 4 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 5 | The first change was in the means test itself . |
| 6 | Given the government 's commitment to control public expenditure and reduce taxation , her main troubles in the first term were with the major spending departments and with ministers who favoured some further reflation to ease unemployment . |
| 7 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 8 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 9 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 10 | After winning the Enfield by-election in 1984 , his first job was in the whip 's office , followed by a stint as junior health minister . |
| 11 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 12 | Bunter , whose first appearance was in the Magnet comic in 1908 , was last seen on television in the 1950s , with Gerald Campion in the title role . |
| 13 | Their first allegiance was to the Messiah whose embrace they eagerly awaited . |
| 14 | The first marketplace was on the site of Široká Street . |
| 15 | My very first race was at the White City Stadium . |
| 16 | The first occasion was in the wake of the Czech crisis and the Munich agreement of 1938 . |
| 17 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 18 | At this place the terrace was inaccessible , being several feet below the level of the room , and her first glimpse was of the back of a dark head down below . |
| 19 | Seona Dancing : First gig was in the bar of University College , London . |
| 20 | Once the first week was over the two small girls joined others in the schoolroom . |
| 21 | The first performance was at the Leeds Festival that year . |
| 22 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 23 | Their first success was with the Rostam field , close to Qatar 's offshore terminal at Halul . |
| 24 | The party leader 's first call was on the John Kyrle High School at Ross on Wye in the Hereford parliamentary constituency . |
| 25 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 26 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 27 | By the afternoon of 4 August , leading formations of Kluck 's First Army were before the great city of Liège , with its ring of six major and six minor forts . |
| 28 | His first concern was for the children . |
| 29 | It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass . |
| 30 | His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them . |