Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 2 | YOSHIKO TAKEDA , 25-year-old wife of a British businessman , has been appointed the first full-time Japanese tour guide at Dove Cottage , Grasmere , the Lake District home of William Wordsworth , writes Gerald Bartlett . |
| 3 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 4 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 5 | The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged . |
| 6 | Settis has impeccably international credentials for such an international institution , having held , among other posts , professorships in classical art and archaeology at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore , served on the faculty of the Ecole Normale Superiéure at Paris and in1991 having been appointed the first Warburg Professor at the University of Hamburg . |
| 7 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 8 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |