Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 2 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 3 | It is easy to understand how the Lehman ‘ Madonna ’ continued to astonish even the restorers Mario Modestini and Pico Cellini , and the art historian Federico Zeri , who were the first to say it was modern , and correctly guessed its authorship . |
| 4 | The approach also has precedents among other women who were the first in their fields , and has been adopted in feminist work like that of Friedan and Greer . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was the Dwarf merchants trading for fur , charcoal or mineral ore who were the first to deal with men on a regular basis . |
| 6 | ‘ So , the Luger 's a German gun — and who were the first major users of chemical weapons on this planet ? |
| 7 | One group of male workers merits special attention : the cotton spinners , who were the first real group of factory workers . |
| 8 | In contrast it was the British , not the Americans , who were the first to express alarm at the wider implications of the communist challenge in French Indo-China . |
| 9 | Many of them were designed by E. R. Robson ( 1835–1917 ) who was the first architect to the London School Board . |
| 10 | The main impetus for change came from Gorbachev 's close colleague , Alexander Yakovlev , who was the first Politburo member to ask publicly whether there had been alternatives to the command-administrative system . |
| 11 | Weismann , who was the first to raise so many important questions , suggested that animals senesce because , if they did not , there could be no successive replacement of individuals and hence no evolution . |
| 12 | Mr Ashdown , who was the first to run the gauntlet on Granada TV 's World in Action , escaped relatively unscathed though he was accused of seeking to ‘ blackmail ’ the country by insisting on proportional representation as his price for a coalition . |
| 13 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , who was the first woman Treasury minister when Mr Major formed his first government , was drafted into Conservative Central Office last year as joint deputy party chairman . |
| 14 | Anatole Kaletsky , the Times economics correspondent , who was the first person to expose the punitive nature of John Smith 's shadow Budget . |
| 15 | I am also grateful to Brian Watkins who was the first to put the idea to me that drama is a game . |
| 16 | Do you know who was the first to coach the men 's and women 's champions in one year ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation . |
| 18 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 19 | Membership of the National Deaf Club tended to attract those deaf people of a certain social standing , and included S. Bright Lucas ( who was the first President ) , wealthy businessman A.J. Wilson , the artist Thomas Davidson , the editor of the British Deaf Times , Joseph Hepworth , explorer and photographer Henry Newton-Lowry , and the type of activities pursued tended to reflect the membership : chess , table-cricket , tennis , badminton . |
| 20 | Who was the first woman appointed to a British cabinet ? |
| 21 | Who was the first woman MP to be elected to Westminster ? |
| 22 | Who was the first woman MP to take her seat at Westminster ? |
| 23 | Who was the first leader of the parliamentary Labour Party ? |
| 24 | Lawrence 's views on brown dominions owed something to his intimacy with Lionel Curtis , the indefatigable imperial publicist who was the first person to think seriously about the idea of a multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 25 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 26 | It was a grey-haired British sergeant who was the first to break the spell of immobility and shock , by moving forward towards the tangled body sixty yards away . |
| 27 | Who scored Charlton 's first goal on their return to The Valley is a logical sequel to the original poser : Who was the first player to score in the first live televised game in England ? |
| 28 | A British double-century looks very much on for the 11-times South African champion , who was the first man to achieve that feat in his native land . |
| 29 | The idea that language might be localised came from the studies of Broca ( 1861 ) , who was the first to observe that aphasia arises as a result of unilateral left hemisphere lesion while no similar effect occurred with right hemisphere lesions . |
| 30 | Who was the first man born outside England to captain that country ? |