Example sentences of "[noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singh 's government was the first to be defeated on the floor of the Lok Sabha and shortly afterwards the Prime Minister tendered his resignation to President Ramaswamy Venkataraman . |
| 2 | Saturday 's rally was the first real indication of how much support the workers have attracted . |
| 3 | Several commentators have claimed that on this expedition Gould 's party was the first ever to reach the great western bend of the Murray overland from Adelaide . |
| 4 | Gencor 's decision is the first of its kind by a big South African firm . |
| 5 | Some analysts claimed that Zhu 's promotion was the first gain for moderates since the army crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement . |
| 6 | Gerard 's home was the first one the killers came to as they left the Tiger 's Bay Loyalist stronghold . |
| 7 | President Yoweri Museveni 's government is the first to give serious thought to the Karimojong problem . |
| 8 | Malekith 's voice was the first to be raised in acclamation . |
| 9 | Its declarations required Catholic scholars to believe , for example , that Moses had written the Pentateuch , and that St Matthew 's Gospel was the first Gospel to be composed . |
| 10 | Nguyen Co Thach 's visit was the first official visit to the US capital by a high-ranking Vietnamese official since the unification of Vietnam in 1976 . |
| 11 | Jiang 's visit was the first to Japan by a CCP general secretary since 1983 . |
| 12 | Li Peng 's visit was the first by a Chinese Premier for 26 years . |
| 13 | In Italy , Bettino Craxi 's party was the first victim of the corruption scandals that have hit all the mainstream parties . |
| 14 | Danny 's death was the first David , 42 , and Lyn , 41 , knew of their son abusing solvents . |
| 15 | Domitian 's decree was the first recorded attempt to reduce a European winelake . |
| 16 | Abe 's arrest was the first occasion on which a serving Diet member had been arrested on bribery charges since the Lockheed scandal of 1976 . |
| 17 | Bob Greig 's appointment is the first of its kind in the country . |
| 18 | Judge Carlos Cerda from the Santiago Appeals Court was investigating the disappearance of several leading Communists and Valenzuela 's testimony was the first solid proof that the security forces had been involved in kidnapping . |
| 19 | Ballantyne 's description is the first one written , so I will look at it first . |
| 20 | Rockwell 's victory was the first to be scored by the newly formed 124 Squadron , otherwise known as the ‘ Escadrille Americaine ’ — until pressure from the Isolationist lobby in Washington shortly caused it to be changed to the ‘ Escadrille Lafayette ’ . |
| 21 | Peter Thornton 's book is the first serious study of this vast and sometimes elusive subject and the fourth in a series of thematically non-sequential books from Weidenfeld and Nicolson initiated by Mr Thornton with his richly informative Authentic Décor : The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 . |
| 22 | It were born on , Yvon Yvon hang on , get it Yvonne 's birthday is the first of February , and mine 's the twenty first , but she 'll be a year older than me , so she 's like a year and twenty days |
| 23 | Svetlanov 's orchestra was the first really good one I conducted in my life . |
| 24 | Colman 's regiment was the first of the territorials to serve with the regular army in France after the outbreak of World War I , and he was severely wounded by shrapnel in the leg , acquiring the limp which he was to spend much of the remainder of his life and career attempting , often in considerable pain , to conceal from audiences and cameras alike . |
| 25 | His response to this development in O'Keeffe 's art was the first positive assessment of the result of the effort she had made to have her intentions as an artist redefined . |
| 26 | Dirac 's theory was the first of its kind that was consistent with both quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity . |
| 27 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |