Example sentences of "be the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 2 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 3 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 4 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 5 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 6 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 7 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 8 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 9 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 10 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 11 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 12 | It proved a fitting finale to what had been the first period of sustained fighting in the war . |
| 13 | Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian , the language which , like French in Imperial Russia , had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah . |
| 14 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 15 | For her to have vetted the reporters on an individual basis ( which would have been the first instinct of the malai military left to their own devices ) would have caused offence to the point where the exercise would have been counter-productive . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ Aids for the disabled are the first glimmering of a further development of our culture , most of which has been concerned with the development of tools . |
| 17 | For example , here are the first lines of an article warning against OTC-traded Bio-Isolates : " Watch out , watch out … |
| 18 | The EETPU Essex agreements are the first instance of this practice being extended into the field of the " new " temporary working . |
| 19 | The first owner of the right is the designer unless the design is created in pursuance of a commission or in the course of employment in which cases the commissioner or the employer respectively are the first owners of the right , subject to any written agreement to the contrary . |
| 20 | These are the first fruits of a beginning letter to all the London embassies . |
| 21 | Well , not just women , men as well , but mothers are the first teachers of the young . |
| 22 | Our teenagers are the first generation of young people to begin their sex lives under the shadow of AIDS . |
| 23 | These are the first principles of Orc generalship … the things that everybody learns pretty quickly . |
| 24 | After two settled years there are the first signs of imminent change in Taylor 's goalkeeping plans , with first choice Chris Woods suffering an alarming dip in form in the last month . |
| 25 | This ones by , er actually you are the first members of the public to know about it . |
| 26 | The accounts , which have been audited represent the CIT in the UK and are the first accounts of the Limited company . |
| 27 | Safe working practices and procedures are the first line of defence against exposure to hepatitis B infection , but vaccination is essential to protect workers who are at risk . |
| 28 | CLIFF RICHARD and Head of Salvation Army , General Eva Burrows are the first patrons of ACET . |
| 29 | Conoco Speciality Products and Southampton University are the first winners of the Hydro Award 1991 , for outstanding achievement in the field of water quality improvement in the UK . |
| 30 | TOP selling Warrington Group are the first winners of Liverpool Region 's Royal Scottish Quarterly Award . |