Example sentences of "he be the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 2 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |
| 3 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 4 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 5 | He is the first critic in print to notice the ‘ balanced predominance of I and thou ’ in Shakespeare 's Sonnets , in the proportion 51.1 per cent to 48.9 per cent . |
| 6 | They said it 's , he is the first Cardinal for hundreds of years to visit St. Mary 's . |
| 7 | He is the first historian who purports to give us the texts which Lanfranc had quoted in 1072- and , of course , they now contain the forged additions . |
| 8 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |
| 9 | After all , he is the first rider from the province to take on opposition at this level , although Gary Cowan was heading that way before his accident at Daytona in 1990 . |
| 10 | He is the first star who might actually change things . |
| 11 | He is the first player to be sent off in a Manchester derby since 1974 , when both Lou Macari and Mike Doyle were dismissed . |
| 12 | He is the first doctor in Britain to successfully attempt the three-step microsurgery . |
| 13 | He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council . |
| 14 | He 's the first artist to feature at the New National Bowl . |
| 15 | When the game starts , wait for a couple of minutes , then make your way to Dr Dingle 's room — he 's the first person to croak it . |
| 16 | Cos he 's the first person to hold a conversation |
| 17 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 18 | He was the first scientist to suggest that they may have led a more vigorous life than the reptiles , and even proffered an atmospheric reason as to why they became extinct . |
| 19 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 20 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |
| 21 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 22 | He was the first boy in my life . |
| 23 | He was the first male to visit Lucien since his arrival . |
| 24 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 25 | He was the first Frenchman to climb 8c , and has free-soloed routes graded 8a± ( about E6/7 ) . |
| 26 | He was the first holder of a London D.Sc . |
| 27 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 28 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 29 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
| 30 | Also , he was the first English-speaker Sandison had met since his arrival in the city . |