Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yusuf who , at the 50-akce level , served as muderris/mufti successively in Larende , Amid , Aleppo , Seyitgazi and again in Aleppo , in which last post he died in 1981/1573 ; of Molla Akmal al-Din ( Ekmeleddin ) , muderris/mufti between 972/1565 and his death in 983/1575 successively in Kefe , Rhodes and Cyprus , where he was the first muderris/mufti after the conquest ( 978–9/1570–1 ) with 60 akce a day ; and of Molla Yalaya al-Ajami who , after teaching at the haric level at the medrese of Sultan Orhan in Iznik , went on to the muderris/muftiliks of Seyitgazi , Aleppo and Damascus , dying in the last-named post in 986/1578 . |
| 2 | Although he was the first artist to depict Australia in an original , Australian way , he was largely rejected by his own countrymen after 1955 when he came to live in England . |
| 3 | Fred Heatley believes that he was the first marcher to be arrested . |
| 4 | It was preceded by lengthy backbench Opposition speeches which prompted Mr Christopher Chope , junior environment minister , to point out that he was the first government speaker for some four hours . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is worth emphasising again , however , that these traditions are , apparently , of relatively recent origin and that there is early authority only for the fact that Molla Fenari was Mufti ( except , perhaps , in so far as it may be argued from Taskopruzade that he was the first Mufti , as noted at the beginning of the chapter ) . |
| 7 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 8 | His great claim to fame is that he was the first Englishman to build a long and lucrative career out of the dissemination of public news . |
| 9 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 10 | And he was the first mufti in the Ottoman state . " |
| 11 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , others looked brand new , as if he was the first person to walk along them . |
| 13 | No , I do n't know Alf , I ca n't remember if he was the first goalkeeper ever to throw a ball out to a player but , er if you want to ring up , tell you what you want to do , you want to ring up if you 're around , between twelve and one , and discuss that with Pete Murray , and Tony Lockwood , for , when they have the sport back on Talkback , and er , that of course , is the specialist sportsperson 's hour , and er , they may be able to throw a bit of light on that . |
| 14 | Cos he 's the first person to hold a conversation |
| 15 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 16 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 17 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 18 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 19 | Bill will always hold a unique place in the Palace annals because he was the first player from the club to gain international honours , when he was selected for Wales to meet Scotland at Dundee on 7 March 1908 ( 1–2 ) . |
| 20 | Darryl Davidson of Gregson Road , Hoghton , Preston wins a VIP day out for a party of four people on the East Lancashire Railway because he was the first entry selected at random with the four correct answers to our quiz based on the North West line . |