Example sentences of "were not the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 2 | They were discovered in a search for diuretics , i.e. drugs which increase the volume of urine , and were not the first diuretics to have additional valuable properties . |
| 3 | We were not the first and I am sure we will not be the last to respond to financial pressures by selling off rare books . |
| 4 | Bryant and Bradley were not the first to notice that poor readers were also insensitive to the sounds of words , but their study is the first to establish the causal connection between the two . |
| 5 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 6 | The English and Welsh , who look back on the year 1870 ( Forster 's Education Act ) as the effective starting point of a state system , were not the first in Europe to realise that a literate workforce would be needed to meet the ever more complex demands of industry . |
| 7 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 8 | But these fourth-century ‘ apparatchiks ’ , the men of the age of Eubulus ( p. 245 ) , were not the first Athenians to gain power by boring work on committees . |
| 9 | In fact , the Romans were not the first here . |
| 10 | Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes . |
| 11 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 12 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 13 | " You must have known that you were n't the first . |
| 14 | I could n't tell them they were n't the first . ’ |
| 15 | They were n't the first . |
| 16 | we were n't the first to come back or anything |
| 17 | But we were n't the twelfth choice . |