Example sentences of "who was [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , Dr James Young Simpson of Edinburgh University , who was one of the first to use chloroform , flatly denied any of these side effects , and said the doctors were seeing what they wanted to see . |
| 2 | A boy who was one of the first British babies born under water in a ‘ birthing tub ’ drowned when he fell in the River Avon , a Plymouth inquest heard yesterday … |
| 3 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 4 | The Kunsthalle , on the other hand , includes works by Newmann and Stella represented by his latest wall reliefs Walter De Maria , Donald Judd and Beuys ; also Naumann , who was one of the first to use neon as a medium for painting , sculpture and graphic work , and Borofsky , who forces drawing , traditionally considered the basis of all the arts , to serve the spatial and environmental demands of his installations . |
| 5 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 6 | Another eminent Conservative Member with industrial connections who has had long-standing reservations about the course of events in Europe , and who was one of the first to make the link between these and Britain 's domestic economic problems , is the Member for the New Forest , Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson . |
| 7 | PC Keith Richards , who was one of the first people on the scene , was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation . |
| 8 | Michael George Wittet was born in Bombay in 1918 , the son of a consulting architect from Perth and a French mother who was one of the first women to graduate in history and languages at the Sorbonne in Paris . |
| 9 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |