Example sentences of "was [pron] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 2 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 3 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 4 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 5 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |