Example sentences of "he is the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 3 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 4 | He is the first critic in print to notice the ‘ balanced predominance of I and thou ’ in Shakespeare 's Sonnets , in the proportion 51.1 per cent to 48.9 per cent . |
| 5 | They said it 's , he is the first Cardinal for hundreds of years to visit St. Mary 's . |
| 6 | He is the first historian who purports to give us the texts which Lanfranc had quoted in 1072- and , of course , they now contain the forged additions . |
| 7 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 8 | After all , he is the first rider from the province to take on opposition at this level , although Gary Cowan was heading that way before his accident at Daytona in 1990 . |
| 9 | He is the first star who might actually change things . |
| 10 | He is the first player to be sent off in a Manchester derby since 1974 , when both Lou Macari and Mike Doyle were dismissed . |
| 11 | He is the first doctor in Britain to successfully attempt the three-step microsurgery . |
| 12 | He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council . |