Example sentences of "the first american " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 2 | IN December , 1943 , the men working feverishly to create the first American atomic bomb sent a team of ‘ spooks ’ to Naples . |
| 3 | I think he had a thing about it particularly because he knew the record company really was going for that song because the first American space shot was coming up . |
| 4 | Within another month or two he did The Rainbow which got enormous coverage , and within another month he was here getting ready for the first American tour . |
| 5 | The term ‘ nuclear ’ rather than ‘ atomic ’ is appropriate from this time onwards because the first American hydrogen bomb was tested in November 1952 . |
| 6 | In the article Garcilaso was touted as the first American and his work seen as the starting point of ‘ a sensibility absolutely new , absolutely Peruvian . ’ |
| 7 | But in 1869 , the year of the completion of the first American transcontinental railway , the greatest examples of the picturesque still lay in the future . |
| 8 | The first American collecting party , led by William Cassidy , arrived at McMurdo Station in November 1976 . |
| 9 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 10 | The first American Museum outside the United States of America illustrating 200 years of American history and art through a series of furnished rooms and exhibitions . |
| 11 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
| 12 | As Maxine Waters , the US congresswoman for South Central put it , in a sermon in the First American Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday , ‘ People want to know why I 'm not saying exactly what they want me to say . |
| 13 | The first American daylight bombing raid on the German capital itself — Big B — Berlin . |
| 14 | ‘ Guercino : Master Painter of the Baroque ’ is the first American exhibition devoted to the artist 's paintings , while ‘ Guercino : Drawings from Windsor Castle ’ includes sixty works from the celebrated royal collection . |
| 15 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 16 | A quarter of a century after the first American military advisers were sent to Saigon , the moment had come . |
| 17 | It was renamed Gallaudet College in 1894 in honour of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founder in 1817 of the first American school for the deaf at Hartford , Connecticut , and became Gallaudet University , on being granted university status in 1987 . |
| 18 | The principal other addresses were given by the eminent sons of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet : the Rev Thomas Gallaudet ( 1822–1902 ) , founder of the first American Church for the Deaf in New York and co-founder of the Gallaudet Homes for the Aged Deaf and Dumb ; and Edward Miner Gallaudet ( 1837–1917 ) , founder president and first head of Gallaudet College . |
| 19 | The first American polar folk were well clothed in sewn animal skins and equipped for maritime life with kayaks ( skin boats ) , fish-hooks , harpoons of bone and ivory , bows and arrows . |
| 20 | Twenty-five years after the first American soldiers went into Vietnam , fifteen years after the falls of Saigon and Phnom Penh , the issue of Vietnam — Vietnam was America 's war ; now it belongs to the world . |
| 21 | Such a procedure was well advanced against President Richard Nixon in 1974 for the variety of criminal offences known collectively as ‘ Watergate ’ , when he pre-empted the process by resigning — the first American president to do so . |
| 22 | Set up by his guru , James McCloskey , as an offshore Gibraltar corporation , with bank accounts ( Nos. 00569798 and 02843900 ) at the First American Bank of Maryland ( a BCCI subsidiary ) , Condor was to be Coleman 's front for resuming control of Tony Asmar 's network of agents in Lebanon . |
| 23 | Eighteen months after the Coleman 's arrival iDAG , Sweden 's national afternoon newspaper , tells the story of the first American citizens to seek asylum in that country since the Vietnam war . |
| 24 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 25 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 26 | The first American bombing of the outskirts of Hanoi and Haiphong had taken place a month earlier . |
| 27 | ‘ I was there when Milburn Henke , the first American GI to set foot in Northern Ireland , stepped off the ship , ’ he said . |
| 28 | On 26 November , 1991 , New York became the first American city to hand out condoms . |
| 29 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |