Example sentences of "he [was/were] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budworth is particularly important because he was the first fell walker to record his ascents with the same attitude and feelings as we have today . |
| 2 | Most women are not convinced by the Prime Minister 's new role as the champion of women 's rights , not least because he was the first Prime Minister in 25 years to fail to appoint a woman to his Cabinet . |
| 3 | He was the first Prime Minister with no military background since the mid-1970s . |
| 4 | He was the first Soviet pianist to play and record all of Bach 's Well-Tempered Clavier , and his Scriabin was praised by the composer . |
| 5 | When PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death on 6 October 1985 during the rioting in the Broadwater Farm Estate he was the first Metropolitan policeman to be killed in a riot since PC Culley in 1833 . |
| 6 | oh he was the first four minute miler was n't he ? |
| 7 | He also created a profession ; he was the first outstanding golfer to write about the game . |
| 8 | He was the first British businessman to take advantage of air travel , although many of the early passengers flew for business reasons . |
| 9 | He was the first responsible man her daughter had ever known . |
| 10 | Above all he was the first known troubadour and , as such , a key figure in the history of European literature . |
| 11 | He was the first English king ( as Irish Catholics still considered him ) to visit the country since Richard III in 1394 and when he entered Dublin on 24 March , with his old friend , Tyrconnel , whom James had created a duke , riding before him , he received a rapturous reception , with bells ringing , girls in white scattering flowers in front of him , and the clergy carrying the host in a monstrance . |
| 12 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 13 | He was the first High Commission for England in England , said , You come from , she says , Yes , he says , You do n't happen to know Jack do you ? |
| 14 | He was the first white man of my generation to really tune into the sensual aspect of being physical . |
| 15 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 16 | The event gave him a place in world headlines , and he was the first classical pianist to win a platinum disc for sales exceeding a million copies of a single record , for his recording of Tchaikovsky 's first piano concerto . |
| 17 | Scrupulous and fair-minded , he was the first academic researcher to provide a rounded appreciation of the critically important contribution of itinerant preachers and non-conformist bodies to the evangelisation and enliteration of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 18 | But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas . |