Example sentences of "was the first [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first anti-abortion group in the world . |
| 2 | Dr. Bernard L. Pitcher was the first born-deaf man in Britain to gain a doctorate , and in 1988 , was still alive living in retirement at Worthing , Sussex where he was the secretary of the local deaf club . |
| 3 | This was the first summit-level canal in Britain , built to transport coal from Tyrone to Dublin . |
| 4 | There was no world war by September , but what did occur was the first major decline in the domestic popularity of his foreign policy . |
| 5 | Although getting to the right beach was the first logical step in amphibious raids — as the ISTD Centre had implied in their 1938 studies — the chronological development of these operations was less orderly . |
| 6 | What is seldom revealed in the history books , though perfectly easy to verify , is that Darwin 's contribution was less a paper than a rambling series of notes which contained nothing novel , whereas Wallace 's " Ternate " paper was the first complete exposition in writing of " Descent and Divergence with modification through variation and Natural Selection " — which is the very kernel of what has become known as the " Darwinian " theory of evolution . |
| 7 | This was the first such sale in the government 's privatization programme . |
| 8 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 11 | It was the first deaf club in the country to levy an annual subscription charge . |
| 12 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 13 | The game was the first tied match in the World League and Alexander said : ‘ I feel like I 've let the whole team down . ’ |
| 14 | His grandfather was the first white man in Carter County and built a fort against hostile Indians in 1883 . |
| 15 | It was the first acting venture in which he was called upon to perform a love scene . |
| 16 | His was the first reported execution in several months for an offence related to the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 17 | This was the first formal treaty in the continuing saga which later generations were to refer to wistfully as ‘ the Auld Alliance ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This doctrine of ‘ last things ’ was the first systematized eschatology in the history of religion and it profoundly influenced Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . |
| 20 | Banstead Hospital , situated in the Surrey commuter belt , was the first large hospital in Britain to close in August 1986 . |
| 21 | It is generally assumed first , that this ‘ ceremonial recognition of his son as king in his own lifetime was something new ’ ( although Aethelred of Mercia , for example , is said to have appointed Coenred as his heir ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) , second , that it was the first royal anointing in England ( though reservations have been expressed as to whether Ecgfrith was anointed or , if he was , whether he was the first ) , and , third , that Offa was basing his action on the recent papal consecration in 781 of the Frankish princes , Pippin and Louis , sons of Charlemagne ( though Byzantine precedents are also possible ) . |
| 22 | It was the first post-war building in England to be listed and a considerable victory for the conservation movement . |
| 23 | Vicente Gomes da Silva , born on 12 March 1827 , was the first commercial photographer in Madeira and one of the first in Portugal . |