Example sentences of "[pron] be the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You were the first blind person to be employed in the County Council ? |
| 32 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 33 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
| 34 | Far less celebrated is the fact that she was the first contemporary British artist to win the international prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968 . |
| 35 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |
| 36 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
| 37 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 38 | ‘ She was the first Sabine . |
| 39 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 40 | She was the first British prime Minister to mount a sustained challenge to post-war consensus politics and , more than any other post-war Prime Minister , she is often regarded as a figure apart from her Cabinet . |
| 41 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 42 | Another one : who was the first black Leeds player and when ? |
| 43 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 44 | Who was the first English professional to score 300 ? |
| 45 | But we 're the first major company in Britain , so our is second to none , our experience with the contract is second to none . |
| 46 | For what it 's worth , I *think* we 're the first automatic listserv list for a British football club . |
| 47 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 48 | Although we did not know it , we were the first white men he allowed into his home other than on business . |
| 49 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 50 | But the reward comes at the end of the evening when ‘ randori ’ ( there 's the first Japanese word creeping in ) gives the players a chance to show what they can do . |
| 51 | From 1660 onwards , pottery was more frequently used in food preparation and consumption , and there was the first ceremonial use of plates in parlour display . |
| 52 | The red robe they gave her there was the first bright colour she had worn . |
| 53 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 54 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 55 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 56 | They are the first published documents from which we can glean personal details about ordinary older people in significant numbers . |
| 57 | They 're the first British team to enter the unusual drive from Paris to the Arctic circle . |
| 58 | ‘ The flights were flagrant violations of the no-fly zone but they were the first armed attacks recorded by the UN since shortly after the no-fly zone was instituted ’ last October , the State Department spokesman , Richard Boucher , said . |
| 59 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 60 | the FA Cup may be over for Hereford , but we hope for better things from Swindon and Oxford : Here 's a reminder of the draw for the Third round — they were the first two out of the bag — both at home too . |