Example sentences of "he was among [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was among the first to champion Eliot . |
| 2 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 3 | He was among the first to welcome the radical reforms launched by Mrs Thatcher , especially in curbing the entrenched legal privileges of the trade unions . |
| 4 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
| 5 | Alexei had risen before the sun broke the horizon , and because he was engaged to wait upon Jehana at the house of her father — a public display to advertise the fact of their intended betrothal which was designed , he guessed , to make it believable — he was among the first to witness the damage which the teams of wrights and carpenters now laboured to repair . |
| 6 | He was among the first generation of British artists to respond favourably , through their own art , to the ideas of Picasso , Braque , Miro and their circle . |
| 7 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 9 | He was among the first to introduce the French style of plein-air landscape painting of the 1830s to London . |
| 10 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
| 11 | He was among the first to offer his warmest congratulations to the victorious Mr Clinton and since then the two leaders have spoken a number of times by telephone . |