Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | iii ) The most recent pilot course has been the first Post-Graduate Diploma course in Interpreting Training Techniques , funded , like the other pilots , by the Nuffield Foundation and held at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1989 . |
| 2 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 3 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 4 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 5 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 6 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 7 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 8 | Indeed , it appears that an unknown Spanish haulier on this sailing had been the first trucker to actually receive a tangible benefit from the Single Market . |
| 9 | While most interest has been attracted by the expensive buys , one of the cheapest lots on offer has been the first to grade . |
| 10 | On 27 September the new monument was unveiled by Arnold Kaech and Sir Keith Arbuthnot , whose great-grandfather has been a first cousin of William Arbuthnot . |
| 11 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 12 | Amd Director of Corporate Affairs and Company Secretary , said her first UK Festival of Musicals was a ‘ resounding success ’ adding : ‘ I believe that the whole project has been a first class example of how industry and the arts can work together for the good of the community . ’ |
| 13 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 14 | He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it . |
| 15 | Rural housing had been the first to receive attention because it could be regarded as the responsibility of each landowner ; but the housing in towns was literally nobody 's business and could pass unnoticed , just as factory hands could be laid off in a recession , as farming labourers with tied cottages could not . |
| 16 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 17 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 18 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 19 | The Squadron had been the first to receive the Lancaster in December 1941 , and W/C d'Arcy , the Squadron 's commander , was anxious to find a Lancaster for display at Waddington as a reminder of the unit 's close association with the type . |
| 20 | In five out of the last seven years the success rate for this type of appeal has been the first or second highest for all categories and almost one in every two appeals has been lost by local authorities . |
| 21 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 22 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 23 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not be able to survive the revolutionary climate of popular anger . |