Example sentences of "[art] first [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Aslett Pearce was the first born-deaf man to be ordained in Britain , and he continued to do pastoral work throughout Hampshire until his death in 1928 . |
| 2 | Although many were appointed to established societies and institutes some were to found their own missions — such was the case of George Annand Mackenzie , the first born-deaf man in Britain to get a M.A. degree . |
| 3 | Dr. Bernard L. Pitcher was the first born-deaf man in Britain to gain a doctorate , and in 1988 , was still alive living in retirement at Worthing , Sussex where he was the secretary of the local deaf club . |
| 4 | Simon away was the first young man all over again , a hundred times worse . |
| 5 | Their actions , however , were inhibited by hostility to change from the civil servants of the Local Government Board , supported by their ineffectual President , John Burns , once the fiery socialist leader of the dockworkers , the first working man to enter a Cabinet but no longer a radical on social issues . |
| 6 | He had accepted membership of the royal commission on contagious diseases — the first working man ever to be appointed in this capacity — but this led to fierce opposition from within the union 's executive , and Applegarth resigned in April 1871 . |
| 7 | An observer of the couple once said of Maud Gonne that ‘ the first resolute man of action she meets will have her at his mercy ’ , and so it proved . |
| 8 | But when the first Labour man put up for for in the area , West , 's constituency now as near as possible . |
| 9 | It led William James to call St Augustine , although he lived so long ago , ‘ the first modern man ’ . |
| 10 | He was probably the first deaf man in the world to do so . |
| 11 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 12 | Archie was n't the first drunk man he 'd driven home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | G.K. Chesterton on the artifice of the simple life is enough to turn a Green purple , Orwell on Gandhi is subtle and sinewy and James Baldwin on being the first black man in a Swiss valley is dignified and sad . |
| 14 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 15 | A British supporter thrust a Union Jack into my hand and I set off on my lap of honour , the first British sprinter to win the title in forty years , the first black man ever to win it . |
| 16 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 17 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 18 | Ashe , married with a five-year-old daughter , became the first black man to win the men 's title at Wimbledon in the 1975 final against Jimmy Con-nors . |
| 19 | Bruce was the first United man to be cautioned and later McClair and Hughes followed him , but Torpedo 's histrionic reaction to the visitors ' tackling rarely impressed referee Jan Dangaard . |
| 20 | But he was hardly the first good-looking man she 'd had dinner with . |
| 21 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
| 22 | He was the first responsible man her daughter had ever known . |
| 23 | In 1896 he was appointed chief inspector of factories and workshops , the first medical man to hold this position . |
| 24 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 25 | He was the first white man of my generation to really tune into the sensual aspect of being physical . |
| 26 | His grandfather was the first white man in Carter County and built a fort against hostile Indians in 1883 . |
| 27 | Drew claimed , with more than a little documented substantiation , to be directly descended from Peregrine White , the first white man to be born in America . |
| 28 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 29 | As a result , she gave birth to the first mortal man ‘ without sin ’ . |
| 30 | He would n't be the first homosexual man to go to bed with a woman in the hope of proving he was n't gay . |