Example sentences of "he [was/were] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |
| 2 | He was the first boy in my life . |
| 3 | He was the first holder of a London D.Sc . |
| 4 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 5 | He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education . |
| 6 | He was the first member of a chiefly family to be sent abroad to study , in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 7 | Fred Heatley believes that he was the first marcher to be arrested . |
| 8 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 9 | He was the first chairman of the Meteorological Office , keeper of one museum and secretary to another , governor of two public schools , two Oxford colleges and helped administer two universities . |
| 10 | A noted figure on the publishing scene , he was the first chairman of the Association of American Publishers , serving a two-year term following the group 's founding in 1970 . |
| 11 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 12 | From this treatise and other evidence , it can be deduced that Dom Pérignon achieved the following innovations : he was the first person in Champagne to produce a truly red wine ; the first person to produce a perfectly limpid white wine from black grapes ; he invented the traditional Champagne press ; perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards to produce one consistent and superior cuvée , or blend ; reintroduced the cork-stopper to France ; and pioneered the use of stronger English glass to withstand the internal pressure generated by sparkling wine . |
| 13 | He was the first person in the Soviet Union who realized what the avant-garde meant in terms of world art , as he set about searching for and collecting drawings , pictures , canvases … |
| 14 | He was the first son of Northern Dancer to make the grade on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | He was the first witness at the inquest . |
| 16 | Bill will always hold a unique place in the Palace annals because he was the first player from the club to gain international honours , when he was selected for Wales to meet Scotland at Dundee on 7 March 1908 ( 1–2 ) . |
| 17 | And he was the first mufti in the Ottoman state . " |
| 18 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 19 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 20 | Yusuf who , at the 50-akce level , served as muderris/mufti successively in Larende , Amid , Aleppo , Seyitgazi and again in Aleppo , in which last post he died in 1981/1573 ; of Molla Akmal al-Din ( Ekmeleddin ) , muderris/mufti between 972/1565 and his death in 983/1575 successively in Kefe , Rhodes and Cyprus , where he was the first muderris/mufti after the conquest ( 978–9/1570–1 ) with 60 akce a day ; and of Molla Yalaya al-Ajami who , after teaching at the haric level at the medrese of Sultan Orhan in Iznik , went on to the muderris/muftiliks of Seyitgazi , Aleppo and Damascus , dying in the last-named post in 986/1578 . |
| 21 | A fine draughtsman and noted expert in perspective , he was the first president of the Liverpool Society of Arts and exhibited in London at the Society of Artists . |