Example sentences of "was the [num ord] woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the first woman ever into one of the famous gay bars . |
| 2 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , who was the first woman Treasury minister when Mr Major formed his first government , was drafted into Conservative Central Office last year as joint deputy party chairman . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 7 | She was the first woman sculptor , and only deaf woman , to be made a member of any Royal Academy in the British Isles . |
| 8 | Who was the first woman appointed to a British cabinet ? |
| 9 | Who was the first woman MP to be elected to Westminster ? |
| 10 | Who was the first woman MP to take her seat at Westminster ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 13 | Everybody knew that Eve was the first woman . |
| 14 | Sheriff Carl Peed of Virginia in America , said the un-named officer was the first woman to be been sacked for sexual harassment . |
| 15 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was the first woman jeweller to win a Council of Industry Design award in 1972 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Julia Phillips was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Picture ; this is a satisfyingly poisonous portrait of her life and times . |
| 20 | Although he was the " Keraing " , the local hereditary chieftain , the government title of " Bupati " actually belonged to his wife , who was the first woman in Celebes to hold the position . |
| 21 | Blackwell was the first woman doctor , graduating in New York in 1849 and later opening a dispensary on New York 's lower east-side . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This long-drawn-out effort finally succeeded in 1920 , and Ida Smedley was the first woman to be formally accepted into the Society . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A brother , Herbert , worked with ( Sir ) Ronald Ross [ q.v. ] on malaria research , and a sister , Hermia , was the first woman assistant secretary in the Civil Service . |
| 27 | She was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1904 , and was the first woman to serve on its council . |
| 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 . |