Example sentences of "[verb] that [pers pn] [be] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 2 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 3 | The Liberal Democrats write to The Scotsman and say that they were the first to back the consortium . |
| 4 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 5 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 6 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 7 | He says that it is the first time the Japanese governent has expressed interest in the IASC 's work . |
| 8 | Mr Bergg has now decided that it was the first and last . |
| 9 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 10 | As new products become available we ensure that you are the first to know about them … and the first to be able to enjoy them . |
| 11 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend recall that I was the first Minister to have responsibility for small businesses — even before the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) ? |
| 13 | NDT Eagle 's training facility can now boast that it is the first to employ three ASNT level III accredited tutors . |
| 14 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 15 | Greenpeace welcomed the voluntary agreement " provided that it is the first step towards an enforceable tanker exclusion zone " . |
| 16 | John was happier with this work than any of his others , and Myfanwy Piper recorded that it was the first of his own ballets which John seriously believed in . |
| 17 | He was not particularly pleased with the result , however : when The Family Reunion had been televised two years before , he confessed that it was the first television play he had seen and that he found the medium deficient . |
| 18 | I understand that we are the first company in the catering industry to gain BS5750/ISO 9001 for franchising . |
| 19 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
| 20 | The Minister of Defence Dimitur Ludzhev on a visit to Ankara on March 10 stressed that it was the first visit to Turkey by a Bulgarian Defence Minister since 1917 . |
| 21 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 22 | Milling at Kingswood expanded , c .1618 , and in December 1624 Webb received a fourteen-year patent of monopoly , claiming that he was the first inventor . |
| 23 | This is to prevent a copier claiming that he was the first to develop the topography in question . |
| 24 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 25 | We said that it was a first step , not the last word . |
| 26 | I admit it freely , and I admit that you were the first to make the diagnosis . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sure there are , but I can quite honestly say that you 're the first one I 've been aware of , or who 's made such a marked impression on me after so short an acquaintance . ’ |
| 28 | Fred Heatley believes that he was the first marcher to be arrested . |
| 29 | A report spread that it was the first step towards establishing a joint all-Ireland police force with the Irish Republic . |
| 30 | Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market . |