Example sentences of "she [was/were] the [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
2 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |
3 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
4 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
5 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
6 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
7 | She was the last surviving member of a family of 11 . |