Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 2 | Arthur Wilson was also the first deaf Briton to own a car , ( in 1896 ) and competed in races not only in cars or on cycles , but also on motor bikes . |
| 3 | The BBC was not the first public corporation and by no means the last . |
| 4 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 5 | Bush was not the first senior industry figure to be left dumbstruck by the single-minded approach Kylie and her advisers were taking . |
| 6 | The Vogue LSE is also the first off-road vehicle to be fitted with electronic traction control ( ETC ) . |
| 7 | Morrison is n't the first African-American author to become enamoured with ‘ the sound ’ . |
| 8 | Laura was not the first English designer with a puritanical streak . |
| 9 | Nicholas was not the first Scottish star who has made the error of moving to London in the belief that the terraces are paved with gold . |