Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later St Sava was created the first Bishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church by the Patriarch of Byzantium . |
| 2 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 3 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 4 | Osbern 's next service to the revival of the old observances after his return from Bec was to write the first coherent Life of Dunstan . |
| 5 | Zambia 's balance of payments situation steadily worsened after 1975 , and by 1978 the IMF was arranging the first of a series of standby facilities , and one extended fund facility ( 1981–83 ) . |
| 6 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 7 | John Young was elected the first honorary Director , and the BDA agreed to provide the administration for the time being . |
| 8 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 9 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 10 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 11 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 12 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 13 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 14 | While Dorothy was making the first entries in her journal that new year Coleridge continued to write poetry with undiminished fluency , both at Stowey and Alfoxden . |
| 15 | Andrew Fuller was appointed the first secretary , and Reynold Hogg the treasurer , with Carey , Ryland and Sutcliff making up the rest of the executive committee . |
| 16 | Isotron of Swindon was granted the first irradiation licence to preserve food . |
| 17 | Admiral Sir David Luce was appointed the first tri-Service C-in-C , Far East , in November 1962 . |
| 18 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 19 | Mark hencher from Newent In Gloucestershire was amoung the first on the scene . |
| 20 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 21 | In 1975 Anderson was appointed the first EEC delegate in Southern Africa , responsible for the EEC Commission 's relations with Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |