Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] the 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 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Roger Chidlow was amongst the first group of immigrants , for he appears in a 1590 rental paying 4d rent for a cottage in Newton . |
| 13 | Richard Baxter was among the first to be arrested . |
| 14 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 15 | The Corporation of Manchester was among the first to build sewers . |
| 16 | Chubby , bubbly jazzman Fats Waller was among the first to really get bitten by the London bug . |
| 17 | Karr was in the first lift , packed in with twenty or thirty others . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Feast of St Nicholas was in the first week of December ; a month away . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Allan was in the first heat , again wearing his knee-length shorts — this time a pair of cut-down Nike tights . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I guess you have to bear in mind that when these values were compiled , White was in the first team whereas Rocky was n't . |
| 24 | In June the Second Front began and John was in the first wave of troops to cross the Channel . |
| 25 | Evans was among the first to recognize that single pillars were treated as idols . |
| 26 | Milton was among the first to suffer from Cromwell 's censors : one of his books was solemnly burned by the public hangman , and two lines were cut from " Paradise Lost " . |
| 27 | G. A. Smith was among the first to give up , going to work with Urban on developing his new colour process ; Haggar retired in 1909 to run his own cinema ; Williamson curtailed the production of dramatic comic films after his standing contract with the UA was cancelled and directed his energies into educational filmmaking to escape ‘ the horrible nightmare of having my business directed by outsiders . ’ |
| 28 | And , for the European case , Mandel was amongst the first to demonstrate the importance of the guest workers to European capital . |