Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 2 | With our experience of furnishing family homes we are the first to agree that no two will be alike . |
| 3 | In January we were the first union to issue briefing notes on all six key health and safety regulations enacted at the beginning of the year we were the only trade union to put on a stand at the EuroSafe ninety three exhibition which was the main exhibition of the European year of health and safety this promoted the union 's approach to health and safety . |
| 4 | He was the son of an Argyll crofter and although mainly concerned with landscape and seascape he was the first Scottish artist in the 1890s to place people in that landscape without sentimentality . |
| 5 | After the war she was the first woman to hold a Commercial Pilots Licence , although she had difficulty finding a job . |
| 6 | After the war she was the first woman to hold a Commercial Pilots Licence , although she had difficulty finding a job . |
| 7 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 8 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |
| 9 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 10 | Since joining INCUBUS it was the first time he 'd come across men who carried guns — outside the States . |
| 11 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |
| 12 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 13 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 14 | when there 's any recession they 're the first ones to lose |
| 15 | For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin . |
| 16 | In many cases it was the first time anyone had explained to the man in the trench that there is more to his job than laying pipes ! |
| 17 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |
| 18 | And of course it was the first thing Hepzibah said , turning pink and steamy from the stove and smiling as if it were the most natural thing in the world that Carrie and Nick should appear in her kitchen at precisely this minute . |
| 19 | Apart from smallpox it was the first major infectious disease to decline . |
| 20 | Five hundred thousand of our members took part in that particular ballot four hundred and fifty thousand of our members decided that they would support a political fund it was the first awakening , in my opinion , since nineteen forty five of the political views of ordinary trade union members . |
| 21 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 22 | Outside London we were the first L E A to realise that this would be necessary . |
| 23 | The Lords ' select committee reported : ‘ Since the UK has one of the oldest sewerage systems it is the first to face the demand for rehabilitation . ’ |
| 24 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe if he was into drugs it was the first time . |
| 26 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 27 | As a matter of fact you are the first visitor to come to the cottage since I moved in two years ago . ’ |
| 28 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 29 | We come back to in fact it 's the first par , again it 's the first part of thirty three , that you have looked at the question , or the possibility of expanding existing towns and villages , and as I read it , you have rejected that , er and therefore you see the only satisfactory method of providing land to meet the figures for the Greater York would be by a new settlement , this is the outstanding balance . |
| 30 | When PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death on 6 October 1985 during the rioting in the Broadwater Farm Estate he was the first Metropolitan policeman to be killed in a riot since PC Culley in 1833 . |