Example sentences of "were the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 32 | Tammuz had enmired himself , no doubt , in a veritable maze of minor and major legal infringements : destruction of Tech-Green equipment and forging documents were the first that sprang to mind . |
| 33 | Two stretcher bearers were the first casualties of the industrious Mr de Loza for making gestures at the offical , and Valencia manager Guus Hiddink saw yellow and red in quick succession . |
| 34 | Jayhawk and Defiant were the first , both entered in the January trials and then retired as the newer America and Kanza were flown in from their builders in Rhode Island . |
| 35 | Emily and her husband , and little Alexander were the first residents at No 28 . |
| 36 | The published accounts of these journeys and the plants found , 250 in Kent and 72 more in Hampstead , were the first records of the herborising expeditions which were to become a regular part of the Apprentices ' training in botany . |
| 37 | These were the first volumes to be received by the library from overseas and it is significant to note that after two centuries many of the original books remain on the shelves and Miller 's Dictionary is still is use . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | What are now her Remains were the First fruits of her Studies … |
| 40 | These were the first nuclear stations to be built anywhere in the United Kingdom for some time , and they attracted special attention . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | ‘ They were the first people here , before the people of Amantani . |
| 43 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 44 | They were the first known tamers of animals . |
| 45 | It is interesting that Gilman and Goodman themselves were the first to discover an effective anticancer drug . |
| 46 | The reagin tests , which were the first tests to become widely available , are still in common use . |
| 47 | Right from the beginning , he fought the signs of ill health which were the first scribblings on the wall . |
| 48 | Neil Blender and Billy Ruff were the first pros from the States to skate the ramp . |
| 49 | The light , well-drained chalk downs of Wiltshire , the Cotswolds , Yorkshire , and Lincolnshire were the first areas of the country to be farmed . |
| 50 | We were the first up the hill and had to break a path , so although a summer walk up Schiehallion is simple and quick to the point of disappointment , winter is a trifle harder . |
| 51 | Very comfortable we were too , as no doubt were the first occupants , Neolithic men and their families . |
| 52 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 53 | They were the first to say that they would prefer to trust all this to people who knew something about education . |
| 54 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 55 | The hits that were the first choices on every juke box between 1956 and 1964 nostalgia-soaked favourites from rock 's bright young stars . |
| 56 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The Italians , and the Dutch , surprisingly , were the first true landscape painters , the Italian countryside always their source of inspiration . |
| 59 | On the one hand these groups , which in some respects mark the bridge between the old and the new philanthropy , were the first to focus their attention directly on urban working-class ( and in some instances lower-middle-class ) youth , rather than on children and adolescents , or women and girls . |
| 60 | This parallels the trampling experiment described above where the skulls were the first element to be broken . |