Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 2 | A major industry initiative was launched by the HCIMA at its annual lunch last month when several operating companies and educational institutes , including Compass , Forte , Copthorne Hotels , Universities of Brighton and Surrey and Chichester College were among the first signatories of a new Charter agreement which will strengthen employer/education links within the industry . |
| 3 | Richard Baxter was among the first to be arrested . |
| 4 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 5 | The North Thameside petroleum traffic was among the first to have its own train crew and dedicated fleet of locomotives . |
| 6 | Chubby , bubbly jazzman Fats Waller was among the first to really get bitten by the London bug . |
| 7 | She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale . |
| 8 | In China jade was from the first shaped for symbolic rather than industrial ends . |
| 9 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 10 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 11 | Can you give some idea as to what the er , can you give some idea as to what the underlying sales growth was in the first half ? |
| 12 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |
| 13 | Roger Chidlow was amongst the first group of immigrants , for he appears in a 1590 rental paying 4d rent for a cottage in Newton . |
| 14 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 15 | Renault , for example , pioneered extension of annual holiday rights in France ( Anastassopoulos 1981 : 109–11 ) , while state industries were among the first to introduce ‘ contrattazione articolata aziendale ’ ( i.e. formal plant level bargaining ) in Italy in the early 1960s ( Martinelli 1981 : 94 ) . |
| 16 | Park Royal employees were among the first people to see the Taste Sensation . |
| 17 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 18 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 19 | Eva and her emergency team were amongst the first on the scene taking in food and clothing , and assessing the need for financial aid to help rebuild the shattered homes and schools . |
| 20 | ONE of the youngest potential victims of Chester 's tuberculosis scare was among the first to be tested for the disease yesterday . |
| 21 | Crawford 's next film role was in the first Anglo-Swedish production , Two Living , One Dead . |
| 22 | All the same , the Joyce family was in the first of many groups to endure the consequences of allegiance to an ousted imperial power . |
| 23 | G. A. Smith was among the first to give up , going to work with Urban on developing his new colour process ; Haggar retired in 1909 to run his own cinema ; Williamson curtailed the production of dramatic comic films after his standing contract with the UA was cancelled and directed his energies into educational filmmaking to escape ‘ the horrible nightmare of having my business directed by outsiders . ’ |
| 24 | Now in a private Japanese collection , it appeared on the art market in Egypt in the 1920s when Howard Carter was among the first to recognise its importance . |