Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we are on the subject of money , in 1991 you were the first art historian to be awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Prize . |
| 2 | In 1888 she was the first woman in Britain to earn the degree of LLB from the University of London . |
| 3 | She became one of the notable personalities of the House of Commons , and in 1952 she was the first woman MP to be suspended from a sitting . |
| 4 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 5 | Although this may seem somewhat esoteric it is the first step towards understanding the concepts of population and sample with which this text began . |
| 6 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 7 | In 1887 he was the first witness called before the select commission on forestry . |
| 8 | Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament . |
| 9 | The Board 's general counsel , Michael Friend , said afterwards : ‘ The finding was that he did change his scorecard at the qualifying round for the European Tour School last October , but the Board felt the sentence of 10 years was too severe given that it was a first offence . ’ |
| 10 | The first published book using photographic illustrations was William Henry Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature , which appeared in six parts , 1844–46 and is an important landmark in that it was the first book in the world illustrated without the aid of an artist in pen , pencil or paint . |
| 11 | In 1982 I was the first Blackwoman to join the Sheba Feminist Publisher 's collective . |
| 12 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |