Example sentences of "[noun prp] be among [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 2 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 3 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 4 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 5 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 6 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 7 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 8 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 9 | Richard Baxter was among the first to be arrested . |
| 10 | The Corporation of Manchester was among the first to build sewers . |
| 11 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 12 | Chubby , bubbly jazzman Fats Waller was among the first to really get bitten by the London bug . |
| 13 | Now in a private Japanese collection , it appeared on the art market in Egypt in the 1920s when Howard Carter was among the first to recognise its importance . |
| 14 | Because of her involvement in politics and close knowledge of major social issues , Webb was among the first of those anti-suffragists who rested their case on the fact that local politics provided a sufficient outlet for maternal influence to recognise that the huge divide between local and national issues in politics was ceasing to exist . |
| 15 | As a result , the homes at West Moor are among the first in the country to be awarded the critical acclaim of a Gas Warm Award from British Gas . |
| 16 | High military spenders like Sudan , Mauritania , Peru and Vietnam were among the first countries to default on their debt . |
| 17 | BP is among the first major companies to adopt the standard which requires asset disposals and fundamental restructuring costs to be stripped from other components of the profit and loss account , implementing the new procedure for last year 's results ahead of the June 1993 deadline set for compliance . |
| 18 | Evans was among the first to recognize that single pillars were treated as idols . |
| 19 | Milton was among the first to suffer from Cromwell 's censors : one of his books was solemnly burned by the public hangman , and two lines were cut from " Paradise Lost " . |
| 20 | G. A. Smith was among the first to give up , going to work with Urban on developing his new colour process ; Haggar retired in 1909 to run his own cinema ; Williamson curtailed the production of dramatic comic films after his standing contract with the UA was cancelled and directed his energies into educational filmmaking to escape ‘ the horrible nightmare of having my business directed by outsiders . ’ |