Example sentences of "[noun] was the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion was the first vehicle for general thoughts about existence . |
| 2 | Many felt sympathy with Morrissey 's stance over this , but many did n't , preferring instead to follow Julie Burchill 's line that Bands Aid was the first record in the history of popular music that actually achieved a positive result ; that Band Aid made the likes of The Redskins quake in their Doc Marten 's and feel totally inconsequential . |
| 3 | Oudran was the first police officer to be convicted for his conduct during the demonstration . |
| 4 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 5 | A Colour Atlas of AIDS was the first book of its kind : written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain it comprehensively described in words and outstanding colour photography all aspects of this pandemic disease from epidemiology to transmission and prevention . |
| 6 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 7 | Murder was the first destroyer of privacy as it was of so much else . |
| 8 | And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business . |
| 9 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 10 | This aircraft was the first Boeing 727 to carry fare-paying passengers on a commercial flight , that being a schedule from San Francisco to Salt Lake City and Denver , Colorado . |
| 11 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 12 | The classic example of his footwork was the first Wigan try in the 1985 final . |
| 13 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 14 | In the patient with Hodgkin 's disease , isolated oesophageal lymphoma was the first relapse after a 13 year interval free of disease . |
| 15 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ FDC was the first step ’ , says Mr Johnson , ‘ and now we 're using it to feed into the EIS Commander . ’ |
| 17 | Horseradish was used for coughs and colds , wild strawberry for anaemia and nervousness and honeysuckle was the first example of aspirin . |
| 18 | Surrey was the first landscape she had experienced that could be called feminine . |
| 19 | The engagement was the first occasion on which the US had admitted to the capture of enemy ground units inside Iraqi-controlled territory . |
| 20 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |
| 21 | Labour was the first party to introduce the idea of a Severn crossing — and of a tolled crossing , at that . |
| 22 | Some believed his claim that the invasion of Kuwait was the first step towards the liberation of Palestine , and/or a blow in favour of the Arab poor ( of which the Maghreb has its share ) . |
| 23 | Hungary was the first country to restore diplomatic relations in September 1989 [ see p. 36906 ] , following two years of steadily improving contacts between the two countries [ see p. 36950 ] . |
| 24 | Bede was the first Englishman to describe the theory of the four ‘ ages of man ’ . |
| 25 | The 11.00 on Good Friday was the first passenger train over the rebuilt Rheidol Bridge which is a particulary fine structure . |
| 26 | De Pomiane was the first writer to propound such happenings as the fusion of egg yolks and olive oil in a mayonnaise , the sizzling of a potato chip when plunged into fat for deep-frying , in language so straightforward , so graphic , that even the least scientifically minded could grasp the principles instead of simply learning the rules . |
| 27 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 28 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 29 | Blackwell was the first woman doctor , graduating in New York in 1849 and later opening a dispensary on New York 's lower east-side . |
| 30 | It occurs to me that the St-Germain-des Pres scene was the first bohemia to have become an immediate media success . |