Example sentences of "be among [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eleven middle managers in the Health Service in the Oxford region are among the first to take part in a new management training programme . |
| 32 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 33 | The aqueous micelles comprising droplets of 1-octanol stabilised by octanoate ( surfactant is generated upon addition of sodium permanganate , which oxidises the alcohol to give the salt ) , could have biological relevance , because these may have been among the first prebiotic structures able to self-replicate . |
| 34 | As Ellen Wilkinson ( who in the 1920s had been among the first women in the Labour Party to support family allowances ) wrote in 1938 : ‘ what the Amery type want is to feed the existing and potential cannon-fodder with the greatest economy and lack of waste . |
| 35 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 36 | He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom . |
| 37 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 38 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 39 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 40 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 41 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 42 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 43 | The company were among the first , post-war , to use front-wheel drive for larger cars . |
| 44 | Mr Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman — who called for an early contest — and Mr Donald Dewar , Scottish spokesman , were among the first senior party figures publicly to throw their weight behind the Shadow Chancellor 's campaign . |
| 45 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 46 | It is therefore a moving thought that the rivermen were among the first people in the modern countryside business to begin to stop and think a little harder about what they were actually doing . |
| 47 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
| 48 | Three of them were among the first to be evacuated by the Red Cross from the notorious Banja Luka camp . |
| 49 | The late-night satirical shows such as Not So Much a Programme , More a Way of Life and That Was the Week That Was ( TW3 ) were among the first to cause the NVALA concern . |
| 50 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 51 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 52 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 53 | Two of them were among the first documentaries to be made about the war , and thus have considerable historical importance . |
| 54 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | And retired soldiers from his army were among the first of the century 's numerous British settlers in Pau . |
| 57 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 58 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 59 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 60 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |