Example sentences of "the first female " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe Kristin Hersh will be one of the first female artists whose alienation transcends gender . |
| 2 | In 1990 a woman rose to the top at West Point , by becoming brigade commander and the first female captain of the corps of cadets . |
| 3 | By the end of the year she was rewriting the record books as — with her UK sales alone more than 2 million — she became the first female artist to have her first five singles go silver . |
| 4 | Led by Lt-Col Lois Lodge , 38 , the first female commander of a regular British Army unit , 24 Field Ambulance will be split into four detachments and assigned to each of the four UN sectors in Croatia . |
| 5 | Rather , as the programme reminds you , it has assumed a fresh topicality by the appointment of Stella Rimington as the first female head of MI5 . |
| 6 | She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice . |
| 7 | LIZ BAKER , 36 , the first female chief executive in the Football League , has announced she is quitting her job at Plymouth Argyle after 15 months . |
| 8 | May 1992 sees the first Female Focus Exhibition . |
| 9 | Kos was one of the first female yachting photographers in the UK and through her desire to find new angles on yacht racing pictures she attained her initial breakthrough ( and a little notoriety ) from masthead shots of 12 meters at the 1983 America 's Cup . |
| 10 | The promising young American sculptress , who was included in ‘ Post-Human ’ and ‘ Strange Developments ’ , both curated by Jeffrey Deitch , has a room in the current Whitney Biennial in New York , and will be seen in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale , is the first female artist to exhibit with the gallery , pace Gwen John , and her exhibition introduces a programme of younger art which the gallery will be presenting in the autumn under the supervision of staff member , Sadie Coles . |
| 11 | The first female member of the European parliament . |
| 12 | The first female Poor Law Guardian was elected in Kensington in 1875 and immediately appointed to a district relief committee and to the workhouse visiting committee , having the special responsibility of supervising the female scrubbers and washers . |
| 13 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 14 | Elizabeth Taylor starred in the film ‘ National Velvet ’ as the first female rider to win the race . |
| 15 | Elizabeth Taylor 's film role as the first female rider to win the race in Hollywood 's ‘ National Velvet ’ , was pure fiction . |
| 16 | He was succeeded by Ertha Pascal-Trouillot , a member of the country 's Supreme Court and the first female President in Haiti 's 186-year history . |
| 17 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 18 | at Gainsborough welcomes to the team , who they believe , could be the first female weighbridge/plant operator in the company . |
| 19 | In these societies the beginnings of weaning and disciplined child-rearing can be seen , and it is significant that , associated with the seasonal hunters of the Palaeolithic period in Europe and elsewhere , we find the first female figurines . |
| 20 | She joined the old South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1976 as a legal assistant — the first female solicitor it had employed — but by 1980 wanted to do something different and went back to university with the company 's blessing ( and a scholarship ) to get an MBA . |
| 21 | PIONEERING Dawn Walden pictured right , has become the first female fire fighter at Courtaulds Fibres ' Grimsby plant in the UK . |