Example sentences of "[noun prp] was the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 2 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 3 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 4 | Hill was the first to speak of muscle activity in terms of costs and expenditures , and he originated the term ‘ oxygen debt ’ . |
| 5 | John Michell was the first to draw attention in print to the similarity between such structures , with their layers of organic ( earth ) and inorganic ( rock ) material , to Reich 's orgone energy accumulators . |
| 6 | And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business . |
| 7 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 8 | Dulcie Howes was the first of them . |
| 9 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 10 | David was the first of her children to wed and Laura got on well with her first in-law , welcoming her into the family as well as the company . |
| 11 | Möllemann 's visit to Taiwan was the first by a German federal minister . |
| 12 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ FDC was the first step ’ , says Mr Johnson , ‘ and now we 're using it to feed into the EIS Commander . ’ |
| 14 | Surrey was the first landscape she had experienced that could be called feminine . |
| 15 | Wright was the first of Souness 's multi-million pound recruits back in the summer of 1991 , but his fortunes took a savage nosedive in September after a string of poor Liverpool results against Aston Villa , Chesterfield and Wimbledon . |
| 16 | Bert Weald was the first to enter and he put his cross to mark the receipt of his year 's wages . |
| 17 | It is possible that the organizers had misread the calendar , believing that Saturday was the first of April , not the third ? |
| 18 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |
| 19 | Some believed his claim that the invasion of Kuwait was the first step towards the liberation of Palestine , and/or a blow in favour of the Arab poor ( of which the Maghreb has its share ) . |
| 20 | Hungary was the first country to restore diplomatic relations in September 1989 [ see p. 36906 ] , following two years of steadily improving contacts between the two countries [ see p. 36950 ] . |
| 21 | A third possibility is one of the small amp simulators ; SansAmp was the first of these , followed by Award 's SessionMaster . |
| 22 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins was the first up the gangway . |
| 23 | Bede was the first Englishman to describe the theory of the four ‘ ages of man ’ . |
| 24 | The 11.00 on Good Friday was the first passenger train over the rebuilt Rheidol Bridge which is a particulary fine structure . |
| 25 | It was n't a bad-looking saucer and Rex was the first to appreciate that . |
| 26 | He did well at it — and Ken was the first to congratulate him . |
| 27 | De Pomiane was the first writer to propound such happenings as the fusion of egg yolks and olive oil in a mayonnaise , the sizzling of a potato chip when plunged into fat for deep-frying , in language so straightforward , so graphic , that even the least scientifically minded could grasp the principles instead of simply learning the rules . |
| 28 | Haworth was the first British organic chemist to receive the Nobel prize . |
| 29 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 30 | Working with Jewish theatre architect Oskar Kaufmann , Reinhardt was the first to make wide use of a fully ausgebauten Bühnenapparates , of full plasticity of scenery and new adventurous use of lighting . |