Example sentences of "he [be] the first [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council . |
| 3 | He 's the first artist to feature at the New National Bowl . |
| 4 | Cos he 's the first person to hold a conversation |
| 5 | When the game starts , wait for a couple of minutes , then make your way to Dr Dingle 's room — he 's the first person to croak it . |
| 6 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 7 | He was the first scientist to suggest that they may have led a more vigorous life than the reptiles , and even proffered an atmospheric reason as to why they became extinct . |
| 8 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 9 | He was the first male to visit Lucien since his arrival . |
| 10 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 11 | He was the first Frenchman to climb 8c , and has free-soloed routes graded 8a± ( about E6/7 ) . |
| 12 | He was the first bowler to compete in both the Under-25 and Open Singles semi-finals at the British Isles Indoor Championship . |
| 13 | He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay . |
| 14 | Already , briefly , holder of the world 's flying-start kilometre ( 152.33 m.p.h. on Southport Sands in 1926 ) , he was the first man to travel at 200 m.p.h. over the mile : on 29 March 1927 at Daytona Beach , Florida , driving the huge chain-driven Sunbeam , powered by two World War I Matabele 22½-litre aero-engines , designed by Coatalen , he averaged 203.988 m.p.h. over the mile . |
| 15 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 16 | He was the first person to visit her after her divorce in 1963. ’ — PA |
| 17 | He was the first person to bring Prize Ring fighting to America . |
| 18 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , others looked brand new , as if he was the first person to walk along them . |
| 20 | He was the first artist to insist upon royalty payments , and his contract stipulated that the records should be retailed at £1.00 each . |
| 21 | Although he was the first artist to depict Australia in an original , Australian way , he was largely rejected by his own countrymen after 1955 when he came to live in England . |
| 22 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |
| 23 | He was the first star to weather the storm of a dope scandal , emerging unscathed and proving the Indianapolis Star wrong when it prophesied that ‘ The public never did — never will — laugh off a dope scandal involving a screen favourite performer . |
| 24 | That 's right and I believe , well I think he was the first goalkeeper to throw the ball out . |
| 25 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 26 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 27 | His great claim to fame is that he was the first Englishman to build a long and lucrative career out of the dissemination of public news . |