Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 2 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 3 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 4 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 5 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 6 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 7 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 8 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 9 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 10 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 11 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 12 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 13 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 14 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 15 | Roger Chidlow was amongst the first group of immigrants , for he appears in a 1590 rental paying 4d rent for a cottage in Newton . |
| 16 | Richard Baxter was among the first to be arrested . |
| 17 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 18 | The Corporation of Manchester was among the first to build sewers . |
| 19 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 20 | EASTBOURNE shook the Halford Hewitt Cup firmament by dismissing Shrewsbury , the cup-holders , 3–2 at Royal St George 's in the first round of the 62nd foursomes festival of the Public Schools Golfing Society . |
| 21 | Chubby , bubbly jazzman Fats Waller was among the first to really get bitten by the London bug . |
| 22 | Karr was in the first lift , packed in with twenty or thirty others . |
| 23 | Now in a private Japanese collection , it appeared on the art market in Egypt in the 1920s when Howard Carter was among the first to recognise its importance . |
| 24 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |
| 25 | This poor soul , pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting , sick and quiet and unregarded ever since , spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken , Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful . |
| 26 | Allan was in the first heat , again wearing his knee-length shorts — this time a pair of cut-down Nike tights . |
| 27 | Because of her involvement in politics and close knowledge of major social issues , Webb was among the first of those anti-suffragists who rested their case on the fact that local politics provided a sufficient outlet for maternal influence to recognise that the huge divide between local and national issues in politics was ceasing to exist . |
| 28 | As a result , the homes at West Moor are among the first in the country to be awarded the critical acclaim of a Gas Warm Award from British Gas . |
| 29 | High military spenders like Sudan , Mauritania , Peru and Vietnam were among the first countries to default on their debt . |
| 30 | BP is among the first major companies to adopt the standard which requires asset disposals and fundamental restructuring costs to be stripped from other components of the profit and loss account , implementing the new procedure for last year 's results ahead of the June 1993 deadline set for compliance . |