Example sentences of "[be] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
| 2 | It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing … |
| 3 | I am the first musician in my family . |
| 4 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 5 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 6 | The kingdom of Greece had a longer history ; the Greeks had been the first subject people to break free from Ottoman rule after 1815 . |
| 7 | Craig Matthews , another South African , had been the first choice before he failed a medical . |
| 8 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |
| 9 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 10 | ‘ What , ’ they asked , ‘ had been the first sign that the forests were in decline ? ’ |
| 11 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 12 | Gould might have been disorientated — his record of dates , distances and directions are sometimes unreliable ; he might have exaggerated the achievements of his expedition — he would not have been the first explorer to do so ; or he might have been misquoted by an over-enthusiastic press . |
| 13 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 14 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 15 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 16 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 17 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 18 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 19 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 20 | The great hero Rodrigo del Bivar — El Cid — had been the first person to use the weight of heavily armed cavalry against the more lightly clad Moors . |
| 21 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 22 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 23 | Sheppard , already famous as ‘ the radio parson ’ — he had been the first person to broadcast a church service — was Canon of St Pauls . |
| 24 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 25 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 26 | Harry had driven his friend over and was in boisterous good spirits at having been the first person to be allowed to take George away from the house . |
| 27 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 28 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 29 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 30 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |