Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 2 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 3 | Lithuania had been the first of the Soviet republics to declare independence , in March 1990 , and during the coup its two Baltic neighbours followed suit , Estonia on 20 August and Latvia on 21 August . |
| 4 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 5 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 6 | Billy had been the first man to call her Annie and she felt strangely pleased . |
| 7 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 8 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 9 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Refining ideas which Ruskin had been the first to promulgate , ( Sir ) Robert Hunter , Octavia Hill , and Rawnsley met in the offices of the Commons Preservation Society on 16 November 1893 and founded the organization which , eight months later , was inaugurated under the presidency of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor , first Duke of Westminster [ q.v. ] , as the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty . |
| 11 | Sir Edmond had been the first of the Goldsmiths to found a School but his example was soon followed . |
| 12 | Sister Cooney had been the first to hint it to him . |
| 13 | Gingrich had been the first to lay formal charges which had led to the resignation on June 6 of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Jim Wright [ see p. 36650 ] , and it was widely believed that his own investigation had been initiated in revenge in April by Representative Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) who on Oct. 26 filed new charges against Gingrich for alleged misuse of campaign funds and of congressional stationery . |
| 14 | ( Romania had been the first country to recognise Moldavan independence , followed by Georgia and Lithuania . ) |
| 15 | When Penguin New Writing began to incorporate photogravure illustrations in 1942 , Vaughan had been the first contemporary artist to have his work reproduced . |
| 16 | Mum , Frankie and Liza had been the first to go , before Dad saw them . |
| 17 | Greece had been the first EEC ‘ associate ’ member in 1962 and had already reduced tariffs and harmonised agricultural policies with the Community . |
| 18 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 19 | Charlotte had been the first to make the connection ; her eyes lit with a spark of alert intelligence which was meant as a communication , and as briefly acknowledged by a warning flicker of George 's glance in her direction . |