Example sentences of "he was [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was probably the first deaf man in the world to do so . |
| 2 | He was probably the first ‘ weather-man ’ , using the medium of the broadsheet instead of television and radio . |
| 3 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 4 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 5 | He was probably the first to include the Gauls in a history of Italy , though Fabius Pictor who fought against them in 225 B.C. was bound to have said something about their characteristics . |
| 6 | At Waterloo , he was again the first to leave the train . |
| 7 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
| 8 | He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 . |
| 9 | ‘ He was also the first sportsman to become a celebrity . |
| 10 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 11 | He was also the first sprinter in Britain to use starting blocks . |
| 12 | He was also the first person to use coal gas for lighting purposes . |
| 13 | He was also the first to investigate fields with finitely many , unc elements , where p is a prime and |
| 14 | And none of the Sicilian tyrants before Agathokles ( end of the fourth century ; he was also the first Sicilian to call himself basileus , king ) put his own name on his coinage — contrast the HIΠ-issue of Hippias of Athens ( B. V. Head ( 1911 ) Historia numorum , Oxford , edn 2 , p. 377 ) , admittedly a coinage struck in exile at Sigeion , c.500 BC , but one which shows that the idea of a coin with an individual 's name on it was at least thinkable that early . |
| 15 | He was also the first to prepare blue mottled soap . |
| 16 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | He was also the first to print five more Erasmus titles in English or Latin , the latest being Sir Thomas Chaloner 's translation , The praise of folie , 1549 ( STC 10500 ) . |
| 18 | He was also the first Protestant to become President of the overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 19 | He was merely the first famous one . |
| 20 | He was always the first to be arrested , she thought proudly , he was so dedicated , so obviously — even to the police self-sacrificing . |
| 21 | It is also , perhaps , not without significance that Fahreddin Acemi is the first to be mentioned as receiving a salary specifically in respect of his function as Mufti , though it can not be shown beyond doubt that he was actually the first to have done so . |
| 22 | But he was hardly the first good-looking man she 'd had dinner with . |
| 23 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |