Example sentences of "was [adj] of [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 22-year-old Edgar was clear of the first three horses she rode in a World Championship final style event . |
| 2 | ‘ I was one of the first chefs to put gastronomic vegetarian meals on the menu seven years ago . |
| 3 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 4 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 5 | David Bintley 's The Swan of Tuonela was one of the first attempts to create a ballet from the Finnish epic with music by Sibelius , a truly national composer from Finland . |
| 6 | I was one of the first ones to be flown out and then there was a postal hold-up so I had real trouble finding out what was going on , and also trying to organise to have him brought home . |
| 7 | He made no secret of his Francophile enthusiasms , in reaction to the earlier domination of American music by Germans , and he was one of the first writers to register the importance of jazz . |
| 8 | With no real power-base of his own , he was one of the first radicals to suffer disgrace . |
| 9 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 10 | But Tich was always happy in his way , and curiously one of his merriest nights was when he and the The Shepton Mallet pop festival was one of the first and biggest outdoor pop concerts , a drug-raddled campsite without tents , populated by beaded flower children in kaftans and body paint who had hitch-hiked west in their tens of thousands . |
| 11 | ‘ Yugoslavia must also not be forgotton since Yugoslavia was one of the first East European countries to show courage in making change , although its economy has not necessarily benefited from this , ’ said President Mitterrand . |
| 12 | He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for . |
| 13 | He was one of the first in the battered political hierarchy to head for Moscow voluntarily for negotiations with Brezhnev . |
| 14 | Yuri Korablev , deputy chairman of the Scientific Council on Complex Problems of the History of the Great October Socialist Revolution was one of the first to publish an article recognising that Trotsky was the driving force behind the creation of the Red Army . |
| 15 | Hospitality was one of the first duties of any bride ; at certain social levels it was a woman 's raison d'etre . |
| 16 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 17 | It was one of the first recipes that my husband attempted in his bachelor days . |
| 18 | Interestingly , Dr James Young Simpson of Edinburgh University , who was one of the first to use chloroform , flatly denied any of these side effects , and said the doctors were seeing what they wanted to see . |
| 19 | As a result , although his club was one of the first to develop Smiley culture , much to his relief Danny never became a tabloid Mr Big . |
| 20 | Nicholas Doig , who farms with his father Dennis at Overy Farm , Eccles , Quidenham , Norfolk was one of the first people in the UK to fit a Packman to a crop sprayer . |
| 21 | However , it must be said that our test tractor was one of the first to come into Germany , so perhaps some early trim problems are to be expected . |
| 22 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 23 | The ‘ crucifix action ’ was one of the first indicators that massive criticism of the Party no longer necessarily excluded Hitler . |
| 24 | It was one of the first attacks and everyone on board had been killed . |
| 25 | He was one of the first people to see that what matters in heredity is a flow not of matter or energy but of information . |
| 26 | Ganz Hunslet , Hungary 's largest train-builder ( Telfos Holdings was one of the first British firms to take a majority stake in a major East European company following the collapse of Communism ) , is building the bodyshells and bogies , but final assembly will take place in Malaysia . |
| 27 | Ganz Hunslet , Hungary 's largest train-builder ( Telfos Holdings was one of the first British firms to take a majority stake in a major East European company following the collapse of Communism ) , is building the bodyshells and bogies , but final assembly will take place in Malaysia . |
| 28 | Ironically , it was one of the first broadcasts which extended to the entire federation since its collapse last year . |
| 29 | Two years ago , when the hard-line Communist Party still held the country in an iron grip , Dr Berisha , the son of Muslim peasants , was one of the first intellectuals to call for democracy and pluralism . |
| 30 | And , ‘ I was one of the first Medicare patients . |