Example sentences of "also [vb past] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Simon Patiño also made the first purchases of French eighteenth-century furniture and Old Master paintings by the French School areas in which successive generations , including Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , his grandson , would collect as well .
2 The Iron Age also produced the first evidence of polled cattle in Britain .
3 Hungary also became the first country to establish full diplomatic relations with Ukraine on Dec. 7 .
4 It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 .
5 Sir Aubrey also became the first man in Test history to dismiss a namesake when he bowled F.W. for 7 in the first innings .
6 After William Morris 's death in 1896 , Benson also became the first chairman of William Morris & Co .
7 He also created the first man , Purusha , from the navel of Vishnu .
8 Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 .
9 They also returned the first colour pictures from the surface , which show that the rocks are tinted brown .
10 The Auxetophone also permitted the first disc-copying to take place .
11 The coming of MTV , and the growing importance of the pop video , also sowed the first seeds of future developments within Virgin .
12 It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation .
13 But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference .
14 In 1965 and 1967 Medau was included in the Leeds Festival of Movement and Dance , and 1967 also saw the first Easter Course in Leeds , which for the next decade established the pattern of alternate years in the South and Leeds .
15 The 30 September also saw the first session of a specially created presidential Commission for Restitution .
16 4 May also saw the first sortie by 69 Squadron 's latest addition — a photo-reconnaissance Hurricane .
17 Brighton also saw the first appearance of the latest new range from Lyles called Heather Mist .
18 Scotland 's only new acquisitions during the decade were twenty-one Class 318s , three-car versions of the Class 317 , to service the newly electrified Glasgow-Ayr/Largs routes , although 1989 also witnessed the first withdrawals proper ( apart from accident victims or asbestos units ) of the original Pressed Steel 1959 ‘ Blue Train' Class 303s , whose unrefurbished examples are due for early replacement by 100mph Class 321-type Class 320s .
19 During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) .
20 Certainly Hobhouse can be taken as a representative figure since , in addition to being a leading light of New Liberalism , he also held the first Chair of Sociology to be established in Britain — at the London School of Economics , which was founded by the Webbs .
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