Example sentences of "be asked [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 2 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 3 | Copies of Figure 11.3 are given to the sender and receivers and they are asked to repeat the first exercise using Figure 11.4 as the data to be transmitted . |
| 4 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 5 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 6 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 7 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 8 | This position was confirmed by the death of Yeats in 1939 , and it was an apt image of succession that Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture at Dublin in June 1940 . |
| 9 | Fuad Masum , a member of the political bureau of the PUK , was asked to form the first government . |