Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonny was given first prize and a cheque for £750 for the novelty of his idea and professional presentation . |
| 2 | He managed to escape from the car and struggle to nearby houses where he was given first aid . |
| 3 | Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , who had been acting Chairman since Pham 's death , was reappointed First Vice-Chairman . |
| 4 | Gennady Burbulis was named first Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 6 | Jaroslav Volf , acting party leader during Dubcek 's illness , was re-elected first deputy chair . |
| 7 | In January 1943 the Ministry of Town and Country Planning Bill was introduced , providing for the appointment of a Minister whose ‘ sole ministerial responsibility is in connection with town and country planning ’ ; the Bill was passed in February and W.S. Morrison was appointed first Minister . |
| 8 | Vladimir Meciar ( PAV ) , Interior Minister in the outgoing Slovak government , was appointed Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on June 27 ; Carnogursky was appointed First Deputy Premier . |
| 9 | Vladimir Shumeiko , formerly president of the Russian Confederation of Entrepreneurs ' Unions ( the managers ' body ) was appointed First Deputy Premier . |
| 10 | When Captain Owen commissioned Leven , a ship-sloop , and the brig Barracouta in 1821 for his survey of the east coast of Africa , Vidal was appointed first lieutenant in Leven . |
| 11 | In 1901 Bolton was appointed first headmaster of the new day school at the Architectural Association . |
| 12 | Sultan Ali Keshtmand , hitherto Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers , was appointed First Vice-President on May 6 . |
| 13 | On June 6 Ronald Freeman , 51 , was appointed first vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; the United States , with the largest stake in the EBRD , had insisted that a US citizen be appointed as deputy to the bank 's ( French ) president Jacques Attali . |
| 14 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 15 | In addition , in the English-speaking Union 's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition , Headway Intermediate was Highly Commended in 1987 and , in 1988 , Headway Upper-Intermediate was awarded First Prize . |
| 16 | One of our CSYS pupils was awarded first prize . |
| 17 | THE Ritzy nightclub in Bromborough was awarded first place in the regional heat of the 1993 Molson British Entertainment and Discotheque Awards . |
| 18 | He was promoted first lieutenant in November 1914 and captain nine months later . |
| 19 | His wife and his son Caleb having both died in 1696 ( the baronetcy became extinct ) , most of his wealth passed to Elizabeth and Heneage Finch who , in 1714 , was created first Earl of Aylesford . |
| 20 | His nephew , James , was created first Earl of Malmesbury : it is with this line of the family that the painting and various other mementoes of the composer have remained to this day . |
| 21 | His son Robert Smith [ q.v. ] was created first Baron Carrington in 1796 . |
| 22 | The Popular Front chairman , Dainis Ivans , was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet on May 3 . |
| 23 | In 1875 Stuart was elected first professor of mechanism and applied mechanics at Cambridge , and pioneered the new courses . |
| 24 | Even when the famous Evangeline , who was elected first woman General of the Salvation Army in 1934 , visited Australia when Eva was six or seven Eva failed to appreciate why everyone was making such a fuss . |
| 25 | Crane was sent first thing in the morning into the forest to find out if there were signs that anyone had passed during the night between the ride and the Swamp . |