Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [art] first president " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 2 | In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran . |
| 3 | Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner refused to declare an emergency , under which a 60-day cooling-off period , would have been imposed and Bush became the first President to reject the advice of the National Mediation Board when he declined to intervene . |
| 4 | Two years later Mawson became the first president of the Institute of Landscape Architecture . |
| 5 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |