Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 2 | Two years later St Sava was created the first Bishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church by the Patriarch of Byzantium . |
| 3 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 4 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 5 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 6 | Osbern 's next service to the revival of the old observances after his return from Bec was to write the first coherent Life of Dunstan . |
| 7 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 8 | Zambia 's balance of payments situation steadily worsened after 1975 , and by 1978 the IMF was arranging the first of a series of standby facilities , and one extended fund facility ( 1981–83 ) . |
| 9 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 10 | John Young was elected the first honorary Director , and the BDA agreed to provide the administration for the time being . |
| 11 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 12 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 13 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 14 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 15 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 16 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 17 | There was , of course , no such safety problem , as the safety inspector subsequently confirmed , and the steward was given the first of the warning notes , as planned . |
| 18 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 19 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 20 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 21 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 22 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 23 | While Dorothy was making the first entries in her journal that new year Coleridge continued to write poetry with undiminished fluency , both at Stowey and Alfoxden . |
| 24 | Kinloch stood as the Whig candidate in the election that followed , and in December of that year was elected the first MP for the borough . |
| 25 | The switchboard was jammed the first night I wore them — it really is odd the little things that bring an instant response . |
| 26 | Andrew Fuller was appointed the first secretary , and Reynold Hogg the treasurer , with Carey , Ryland and Sutcliff making up the rest of the executive committee . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 28 | Isotron of Swindon was granted the first irradiation licence to preserve food . |
| 29 | Admiral Sir David Luce was appointed the first tri-Service C-in-C , Far East , in November 1962 . |
| 30 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |