Example sentences of "have be the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 2 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 3 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 4 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 5 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 6 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I am proud to have been the first British actor to play the American rock hero in his own homeland . |
| 8 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 9 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 10 | When Penguin New Writing began to incorporate photogravure illustrations in 1942 , Vaughan had been the first contemporary artist to have his work reproduced . |
| 11 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 12 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 13 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 14 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 15 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 16 | As the most advanced part of the French colonial empire Vietnam in 1945 might , perhaps , by a sort of inductive leap , have been the first French colony to become independent . |