Example sentences of "he [was/were] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the first holder of a London D.Sc . |
| 2 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 3 | He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education . |
| 4 | He was the first member of a chiefly family to be sent abroad to study , in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was the first son of Northern Dancer to make the grade on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 8 | 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 . |