Example sentences of "[was/were] the first person [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking at the rally , Paul Hill , who in 1976 was the first person to be arrested under the PTA , said : ‘ The Irish people can not be oppressed any longer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | William Murdock was the first person in this country to build a moving steam engine . |
| 7 | I was the first person in a nun 's care to get pregnant I 'm famous ! |
| 8 | Patient 301 was the first person in this family to be referred for genetic counselling . |
| 9 | ‘ I bought them in Italy ( I was the first person in England to wear tinted glasses — Prince Philip had them after me ) and the little girl in the shop used to say , ‘ Dad , Dad , that 's Roy Orbison ’ . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There is some doubt over who was the first person in the world to swim the back crawl , but arguably it was actress Rita Tushingham 's uncle Thomas , who also swam for the Garston club , ’ he explains . |