Example sentences of "who [vb past] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
2 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
3 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
4 | Thanks to Vo Quy — who led the first team of Vietnamese scientists south of the seventeenth parallel to investigate the environmental damage caused during the US/Vietnam war — almost every student in Vietnam plants one to three trees per year as part of the school curriculum . |
5 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
6 | Cathy Gerring , who pocketed the first prize of £500,000 in the recent World Championship of Women 's Golf at the exquisite Urban Cely course near Paris , is a golfer apart , a player who sparkles with or without her clubs . |
7 | Congratulations to The Mighty Fall , who won the first heat of the Cool FM/Kit Kat ‘ Make The Break ’ competition in the Limelight recently . |
8 | However , his main opponent , Mohamed Taki , who won the first round of the presidential election , continued to accuse Djohar of vote-rigging and was linked to an alleged attempt to overthrow the government discovered in August [ see below ] . |
9 | Titled the Leopoldo Cicognara Conference , it is named after the eary nineteenth-century Venetian ( d. 1834 ) who compiled the first bibliography of art-historical literature . |
10 | County captain Tim Robinson — who missed the first month of the season after breaking his left thumb — has taken over temporarily . |