Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigade was probably the first youth group to emphasize the specific nature of ‘ boyhood ’ and to develop a programme and a philosophy designed for this stage of life . |
| 2 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
| 3 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 4 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 5 | HBcAg was usually the first viral antigen to be detected by immunohistochemistry ( Fig 1B ) . |
| 6 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 7 | Darwin was not the first to marvel but he made the notion of such adaptedness scientifically respectable by providing an explanation of how it might have come about . |
| 8 | The Harter Act was also the first United States federal statute to specify what had to be stated in a bill of lading . |
| 9 | Taking the lifeboat out of the narrow harbour entrance into the face of 100-knot winds was only the first hazard . |
| 10 | At that time , Gore was still a first year at Bath University . |
| 11 | The " Vouillé " campaign was not the first Frankish invasion of Visigothic Aquitaine . |
| 12 | Once the Lord Treasurer became a working officer the post was filled with trained administrators , although their intellectual training had been literary rather than numerate : Lionel Cranfield was probably the first really numerate Lord Treasurer . |
| 13 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 14 | But Graham was also the first to observe a decline in Minton 's illustrative work in the 1950s . |
| 15 | The sixteenth edition was probably the first of the more recent editions to be widely accepted . |
| 16 | Details of the Soviet initiative were kept secret but reports in the German newspaper Bild ( Chancellor Helmut Kohl was noticeably the first foreign leader to be told about the proposal ) and elsewhere revealed its outline . |
| 17 | Arthur Wilson was also the first deaf Briton to own a car , ( in 1896 ) and competed in races not only in cars or on cycles , but also on motor bikes . |
| 18 | Zenobia was also the first name of my paternal grandmother who lived and died in Nigeria and whom I never met . |
| 19 | Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim . |
| 20 | The BBC was not the first public corporation and by no means the last . |
| 21 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 22 | The most senior member of the Reagan administration to be tried in connection with the Iran-contra case , Poindexter was also the first to receive a custodial sentence . |
| 23 | Bush was not the first senior industry figure to be left dumbstruck by the single-minded approach Kylie and her advisers were taking . |
| 24 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 25 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |
| 26 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 27 | Audubon was not the first to try to portray animals in motion , but his dramatic and vast illustrations of the birds of America were important as attempts to show living creatures . |
| 28 | The BBC 's Nine O'Clock News was obviously the first to describe the episode . |
| 29 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 30 | Cyril Humphries , the dealer who supplied Dr Sackler with most of his maiolica , backs up Mrs Sackler 's claim , noting that ‘ Dr Sackler always told me he would like to keep the collection intact … he wanted eventually to collect the entire spectrum of ceramic arts , and the maiolica was only the first part of it . ’ |