Example sentences of "she was the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was the second child and second daughter in the family of one son and three daughters of Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst , barrister and republican , and his wife Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v. ] , daughter of Robert Goulden , a prosperous Manchester cotton manufacturer . |
| 2 | She was the second daughter and fourth child in the family of two sons and five daughters of Frederick Cons , a maker of pianoforte cases for Broadwood 's , and his wife Esther Goodair , the daughter of a Stockport mill-owner . |
| 3 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 4 | She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria . |
| 5 | But she did ask a question , she was the first question that was asked , the one about erm |
| 6 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 7 | She was the first girl after my sisters to affect me . |
| 8 | She was the first girl , and Mrs Malloy was thrilled at the thought of spoiling her rotten . |
| 9 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 10 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 11 | She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it . |
| 12 | She was the first person to say to me , ‘ Do n't go through life saying , if only … ’ |
| 13 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 14 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 15 | She was the first witness to some of the most distressing scenes between the Prince and Princess of Wales , and was determined that the same mistakes would not be repeated when another newcomer joined the firm . |
| 16 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 17 | She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address . |
| 18 | Yourcenar ( an anagram on the family name of Crayencour ) was not an academic , but as one of France 's most highly-regarded novelists , she was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy . |
| 19 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 20 | She was the first woman sculptor , and only deaf woman , to be made a member of any Royal Academy in the British Isles . |
| 21 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 22 | Chicago-born , she was the first woman graduate of London School of Economics ; widely travelled , she lived ‘ a romantic life ’ , and nursed Woolley lovingly in his final years . |
| 23 | She was the first woman jeweller to win a Council of Industry Design award in 1972 . |
| 24 | This was no small step for one so young but for a woman it was more remarkable since she was the first woman solicitor in Sheffield . |
| 25 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 26 | She became one of the notable personalities of the House of Commons , and in 1952 she was the first woman MP to be suspended from a sitting . |
| 27 | She was the first woman to receive such an honour , and it had to be accepted by Professor Bonney on her behalf , since women were not allowed to attend meetings of the society . |
| 28 | In 1888 she was the first woman in Britain to earn the degree of LLB from the University of London . |
| 29 | Equipped with a knowledge of four languages , she was the first woman to get a distinction in the diploma in economics and political science , and then took a teaching diploma at London University . |
| 30 | A strong force behind her husband 's career , she was the first woman chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1926 , a member of the Church Assembly 's house of laity from 1925 and of the archbishop 's commission on church and state ( 1930–5 ) , and succeeded her husband as a BBC governor . |