Example sentences of "[art] first [noun] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 2 | The first proposals to be approved were Berkshire 's own scheme and a more radical one from North East London Polytechnic within the framework of its School for Independent Study . |
| 3 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 4 | She was one of the first women to be elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society ( 1905 ) . |
| 5 | One of the first women to be awarded a master 's degree in business administration from Harvard University , Franklin had served in the White House under President Richard Nixon . |
| 6 | He has the distinction of being among Britain 's 100 richest men , and also of being the first man to be kicked out of Lloyd 's — in 1982 for ‘ discreditable conduct ’ . |
| 7 | Much of John Tawell 's adventurous and notorious life has been forgotten , but he does remain exclusive in criminal history , as the first man to be trapped by electric telegraph . |
| 8 | The first man to be appointed as Minister , Lance Buckmaster , had seemed logical . |
| 9 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 10 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 11 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 12 | Speaking at the rally , Paul Hill , who in 1976 was the first person to be arrested under the PTA , said : ‘ The Irish people can not be oppressed any longer . |
| 13 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 14 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 15 | A CHILD murderer set to become the first person to be hanged for 28 years has sparked controversy across America . |
| 16 | Griffiths went down in Welsh history as the first person to be sent off for kicking one of his own players . |
| 17 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 18 | You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice . |
| 19 | Harry had driven his friend over and was in boisterous good spirits at having been the first person to be allowed to take George away from the house . |
| 20 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 21 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 22 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 23 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 24 | The Preliminary Certificate was the first SVQ to be developed and awarded and will be followed in the near future by a range of SVQs in agriculture and commercial horticulture . |
| 25 | In 1980–1 , in the first Test to be played on his home ground in Antigua , there was never any doubt that he was going to mark the occasion with a century , and , as we shall see , when England returned five years later he marked that occasion in the most spectacular fashion . |
| 26 | Dexter , 57 , was the first chairman to be paid when he took over in March 1989 after Peter May had been in charge for seven years . |
| 27 | Eric of Mallion was the first champion to be born in this country , but not the first to gain this title because he did not actually become a champion until he was seven years old . |
| 28 | So it is appropriate that the first champion to be whelped in this country was Ch. |
| 29 | There is widespread agreement that Mark was the first Gospel to be completed and that he became a prime source of both Matthew and Luke . |
| 30 | 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 . |