Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 2 | Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons . |
| 3 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 4 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 5 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 6 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |