Example sentences of "have been the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tendring Council is one of the forerunners in dog control and advice , having been the first authority in Essex to employ a dog warden and introduce dog control byelaws , added Mr Coulter . |
| 32 | On Monday 18th June sixty people met in Painters ' Hall in the City to take part in a ‘ tutored wine tasting ’ of sparkling wines , under the most knowledgeable guidance of Pamela Vandyke Price , author and wine journalist of fabulous expertise , whose distinctions include having been the first woman admitted on equal terms into the male-dominated world of wine . |
| 33 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 34 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 35 | Reputed to have been the first man to fly under a bridge , Thaw had the face , physique and drinking habits of a Hemingway ; after being wounded , his arm froze — to the rough mirth of the squadron — permanently in the crooked position . |
| 36 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 37 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 38 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 39 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 40 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 41 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 42 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 43 | Harris 's death , scheduled for 3 a.m. on April 3 , was to have been the first execution in the state of California since 1967 . |
| 44 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 45 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 46 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 47 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 48 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 51 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 52 | ( Romania had been the first country to recognise Moldavan independence , followed by Georgia and Lithuania . ) |
| 53 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 54 | Craig Matthews , another South African , had been the first choice before he failed a medical . |
| 55 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 56 | ‘ What , ’ they asked , ‘ had been the first sign that the forests were in decline ? ’ |
| 57 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 58 | Billy had been the first man to call her Annie and she felt strangely pleased . |
| 59 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 60 | 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 . |