Example sentences of "he [was/were] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 2 | He was the first scientist to suggest that they may have led a more vigorous life than the reptiles , and even proffered an atmospheric reason as to why they became extinct . |
| 3 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 4 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |
| 5 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 6 | He was the first boy in my life . |
| 7 | He was the first male to visit Lucien since his arrival . |
| 8 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 9 | He was the first Frenchman to climb 8c , and has free-soloed routes graded 8a± ( about E6/7 ) . |
| 10 | He was the first holder of a London D.Sc . |
| 11 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 12 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 13 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
| 14 | Also , he was the first English-speaker Sandison had met since his arrival in the city . |
| 15 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 16 | He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education . |
| 17 | He was the first member of a chiefly family to be sent abroad to study , in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 18 | Fred Heatley believes that he was the first marcher to be arrested . |
| 19 | He was the first bowler to compete in both the Under-25 and Open Singles semi-finals at the British Isles Indoor Championship . |
| 20 | 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 . ) . |
| 21 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 22 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 25 | He was the first man I ever really looked at . |
| 26 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 27 | He was the first man ever to enter The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London after TODAY smuggled him in . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay . |
| 30 | After the war he was the first Welshman to become an accredited guide of the British Mountaineering Council . |