Example sentences of "probably [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Veteran farmer William Robertson , Oudenard , Bridge of Earn , is probably the first farmer to have his combine working in Scotland this year . |
2 | I also remember meeting Johnnie Cooper , then a subaltern , but a long serving ex-N.C.O. who had been probably the first man recruited to the infant regiment by David Stirling . |
3 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
4 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
5 | He was the first to recommend skiing as a sport to the Norwegians themselves and probably the first man to ski in the Alps . |
6 | , Thomas ( d. 1295 ) , knight and traitor , was probably the first man in England to be executed for spying . |
7 | Here are hits from Future Sound Of London , Alison Limerick , The Shamen , Snap , plus Humanoid 's ( ie Future Sound Of London 's Brian Dougan 's ) ‘ Stakker Humanoid ’ , probably the first UK techno hit . |
8 | And so you carry on , with what is probably the first conversation that person has had for weeks . |
9 | This wistful elegy to the post-Bomb small-town America , The Last Picture Show was probably the first film that pined nostalgically for a generation 's lost innocence , soundtracking Hank Williams ' lonesome holler to great effect . |
10 | Stanley Kubrick 's 2001:A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) , produced in England but using both British and American effects specialists , was probably the first film to make extensive , and widely publicized , use of front projection . |
11 | Probably the first contact between you and a bank is when you open a current account . |
12 | It has not been in the hobby quite that long , but has , I estimate , been around for well over 30 years , and was probably the first Apisto to be kept in captivity . |
13 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
14 | Probably the first person got an unfortunate sample . |
15 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
16 | Probably the first person to discover the body . ’ |
17 | That was n't what you said , that was n't what you said , and probably the first person to put your granny in a home . |
18 | Perhaps an even more significant index of changing attitudes was the sending of a Turkish ambassador to Teheran in 1849 : this formed part of " probably the first exchange of permanent diplomatic missions by two Muslim states " . |
19 | All that remains of probably the first country house in England to be modelled on a Palladian villa . |
20 | It is curious that painted decoration , probably the first type of decoration applied to furniture , is of the greatest rarity in eighteenth-century France , and only seven other examples are known to exist . |
21 | Market research surveys were probably the first type of opinion survey to be used and as early as the first decade of the twentieth century . |
22 | Probably the first goal against Grimsby . |
23 | It was probably the first guidebook of its kind . |
24 | This is probably the first Windows Application that we 've reviewed where you could lock away the manual , a great on-screen help system helps both the novice or experienced user . |
25 | Dredge was shot down in flames in Hurricane Z3057 on 6 May , only ten days after arriving on Malta ; he baled out , badly burned , and was probably the first victim claimed over the island by Ritterkreuzträger Oblt . |
26 | The Station Chief would have come from home because he wore no tie and he was draped in an old windbreaker , probably the first coat to hand on the pegs by his front door . |
27 | The Brigade was probably the first youth group to emphasize the specific nature of ‘ boyhood ’ and to develop a programme and a philosophy designed for this stage of life . |
28 | This agency , called the peer group , is probably the first means by which children encounter ideas and ways of behaving different from those at home . |
29 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
30 | I think the work he has done here is incredible really , the West Riding under his care were probably the first Authority to start a collection of pictures to be bought for circulating in the schools . |