Example sentences of "he [be] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 32 | He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education . |
| 33 | He was the first member of a chiefly family to be sent abroad to study , in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 34 | Fred Heatley believes that he was the first marcher to be arrested . |
| 35 | He was the first bowler to compete in both the Under-25 and Open Singles semi-finals at the British Isles Indoor Championship . |
| 36 | CD began writing up his travels for the Daily News , of which he was the first editor , and 8 ‘ Travelling Letters ’ appeared there between 21 Jan. and 11 Mar. 1846 , ending with the section entitled ‘ Piacenza to Bologna ’ in the book ; the ‘ Travelling Letters ’ were revised , and the remaining sections written for its publication as Pictures from Italy in May 1846 ( Bradbury & Evans , 1 vol . ) . |
| 37 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 38 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 39 | It was preceded by lengthy backbench Opposition speeches which prompted Mr Christopher Chope , junior environment minister , to point out that he was the first government speaker for some four hours . |
| 40 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 41 | He was the first man I ever really looked at . |
| 42 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 43 | He was the first man ever to enter The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London after TODAY smuggled him in . |
| 44 | Already , briefly , holder of the world 's flying-start kilometre ( 152.33 m.p.h. on Southport Sands in 1926 ) , he was the first man to travel at 200 m.p.h. over the mile : on 29 March 1927 at Daytona Beach , Florida , driving the huge chain-driven Sunbeam , powered by two World War I Matabele 22½-litre aero-engines , designed by Coatalen , he averaged 203.988 m.p.h. over the mile . |
| 45 | He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay . |
| 46 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |
| 47 | He was the first chairman of the Meteorological Office , keeper of one museum and secretary to another , governor of two public schools , two Oxford colleges and helped administer two universities . |
| 48 | A noted figure on the publishing scene , he was the first chairman of the Association of American Publishers , serving a two-year term following the group 's founding in 1970 . |
| 49 | Surprisingly , others looked brand new , as if he was the first person to walk along them . |
| 50 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 51 | So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts . |
| 52 | He was the first person to bring Prize Ring fighting to America . |
| 53 | He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her . |
| 54 | From this treatise and other evidence , it can be deduced that Dom Pérignon achieved the following innovations : he was the first person in Champagne to produce a truly red wine ; the first person to produce a perfectly limpid white wine from black grapes ; he invented the traditional Champagne press ; perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards to produce one consistent and superior cuvée , or blend ; reintroduced the cork-stopper to France ; and pioneered the use of stronger English glass to withstand the internal pressure generated by sparkling wine . |
| 55 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 56 | He was the first person in the Soviet Union who realized what the avant-garde meant in terms of world art , as he set about searching for and collecting drawings , pictures , canvases … |
| 57 | He was the first person , so far as we know , to record the fact that the tentacles of the common sundew are capable of movement . |
| 58 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 59 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |
| 60 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |