Example sentences of "also the first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most senior member of the Reagan administration to be tried in connection with the Iran-contra case , Poindexter was also the first to receive a custodial sentence . |
| 2 | This is the first study from the United Kingdom to examine the cost of maintaining patients on long term sclerotherapy , and it is also the first to compare this with a surgical procedure in such patients . |
| 3 | They were also the first to join permanent trade unions . |
| 4 | He was also the first to print five more Erasmus titles in English or Latin , the latest being Sir Thomas Chaloner 's translation , The praise of folie , 1549 ( STC 10500 ) . |
| 5 | It was also the first to use controlled pre-heating of boiler feed-water . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Aristobulus was , however , also the first to give authority to the tradition that the LXX translation was due to the initiative of Ptolemy Philadelphus and his adviser Demetrius Phalereus . |
| 8 | They are also the first to contain the new style ‘ classless ’ honours , with the end of the separate British Empire Medal for outstanding community service . |
| 9 | They are also the first to achieve levels of commercialism higher than those based on ceremonial exchanges as a means of forming social and political alliances ; the latter type of system may have remained in use longer in some areas . |
| 10 | The French shops were the first to use the dark green exterior , which became an instantly recognizable hallmark of ‘ country ’ quality , and were also the first to have architect-designed wooden interiors . |
| 11 | The Bengali intelligentsia , the first sizeable social group in Asia to come into close contact with a European nation , were also the first to experience such a revolution in their mental world . |
| 12 | He was also the first to investigate fields with finitely many , unc elements , where p is a prime and |
| 13 | But Graham was also the first to observe a decline in Minton 's illustrative work in the 1950s . |
| 14 | He was also the first to prepare blue mottled soap . |
| 15 | Thomas Deloney , reckoned to be England 's first novelist , mentions dastardly goings-on there in the late 1500s , so the Ostrich has the distinction of being one of the half a dozen claimants to the title of oldest inn in England , and is also the first mentioned in an English novel . |
| 16 | KNOWN to the public as a lyric poet , novelist , and anarchist propagandist , John Henry Mackay was also the first to try to organise his fellow boy-lovers in order to gain acceptance of the right of men and boys to love one another . |