Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] also the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 2 | She was also the first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro . |
| 3 | She was also the first woman painter to achieve this status . |
| 4 | We were also the first sponsor of televised croquet in association with Granada TV and we have since launched a competition to stimulate schools involvement in this fascinating sport . |
| 5 | We were also the first place in southern Africa to be converted to Christianity , and different religious beliefs of all kinds already thrive there . |
| 6 | They were also the first to join permanent trade unions . |
| 7 | It was also the first occasion on which the bishop of Rome is known to have invoked the text of Matthew 16 : 18 to justify his primatial jurisdiction . |
| 8 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 9 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 10 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |
| 11 | It was also the first direct aid ever paid to exploration companies in Ireland . |
| 12 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |
| 13 | It was also the first colony gained by conquest . |
| 14 | It was also the first to use controlled pre-heating of boiler feed-water . |
| 15 | This was the first UN resolution since 1978 which did not condemn Vietnam 's invasion of Cambodia and demand the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops ; it was also the first unanimous resolution on Cambodia . |
| 16 | It was also the first opportunity for the Sandinistas to assess their opposition role after losing elections in February 1990 to the right-wing National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition of President Violeta Chamorro de Barrios [ see p. 37236 ] . |
| 17 | It was also the first opportunity at national level for the electorate to deliver its verdict on the DLP , which had been formed by Roh in January 1990 through the merger of his minority ruling party with two of the three main opposition parties [ see pp. 37187-88 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ It was also the first time that steam , which is the lifeblood of THORP was introduced into the highly active area . ’ |
| 19 | It was also the first pneumatic malting to be built in Europe , incorporating machinery from America . |
| 20 | It marked the dedication of a new city church … but it was also the first time a Roman Catholic cardinal had preached before the Monarch since the time of Henry The Eighth . |
| 21 | It was also the first clear opening afforded to Kelly in 86 minutes of nonstop seeking . |
| 22 | It was also the first time Liverpool had gone ahead of their rivals — 45 wins to 44 — since the derby series , than at 127 games , began . |
| 23 | He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 . |
| 24 | ‘ He was also the first sportsman to become a celebrity . |
| 25 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 26 | He was also the first sprinter in Britain to use starting blocks . |
| 27 | He was also the first person to use coal gas for lighting purposes . |
| 28 | He was also the first to investigate fields with finitely many , unc elements , where p is a prime and |
| 29 | And none of the Sicilian tyrants before Agathokles ( end of the fourth century ; he was also the first Sicilian to call himself basileus , king ) put his own name on his coinage — contrast the HIΠ-issue of Hippias of Athens ( B. V. Head ( 1911 ) Historia numorum , Oxford , edn 2 , p. 377 ) , admittedly a coinage struck in exile at Sigeion , c.500 BC , but one which shows that the idea of a coin with an individual 's name on it was at least thinkable that early . |
| 30 | He was also the first to prepare blue mottled soap . |