Example sentences of "was the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Oddie was the first comedy hippy , they had stupid hit singles ( something Python only managed ten years after the event ) , they got stuffy BBC presenters to do daft things ( Raymond Baxter in string underpants ) and , true to form , they went to ITV in 1980 and were crap . |
| 2 | The public session of the Conference was opened to the media as was the first Biennial Conference in 1991 . |
| 3 | In the early 1970s , Habitat was the first retailing company to install electronic point of sale systems ( EPOS ) in its stock control department for the automatic replenishment of stocks . |
| 4 | Tertullian ( c. 155–222 ) was the first Church Father to declare that Christians ought to abstain on Sunday from secular duties or occupations , lest these should give pleasure to the Devil . |
| 5 | This was the first CACE report . |
| 6 | Situated in a quiet , residential area of Melton Mowbray , Wexford House was the first Eagle Lodge to open . |
| 7 | On Oct. 9 the government refused a US extradition request for Salomom Shourter Benitez , and on Oct. 19 Gonzalo de Jesus Rincon Perez was the first drug trafficker wanted in the USA to surrender under these conditions . |
| 8 | It was preceded by lengthy backbench Opposition speeches which prompted Mr Christopher Chope , junior environment minister , to point out that he was the first government speaker for some four hours . |
| 9 | I do n't know if it 's the sa I do n't think it 's the same one they have today but it was the first Land Rover that I can ever remember coming to the borders . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The course was the first accountancy degree offered in Ireland and it is recognized by the accountancy bodies as a ‘ relevant degree ’ . |
| 12 | In this sense Legion was the first missionary figure in the Gospel . |
| 13 | But the big talking point was the first half bust-up involving the rivals managers and team officials . |
| 14 | The Excursionist , renamed the Traveller 's Gazette in 1903 , was the first travel magazine . |
| 15 | This was the first operating profit since 1986 and was achieved in the face of continuing recession in our major markets and weaker exchange rates . |
| 16 | It was the first teaching situation I 'd been in , and I 'd got lots of energy and I was devising ways of getting classroom control and class management and all that kind of thing … |
| 17 | 0-4-0T Cadbury Number 2 was the first steam locomotive to work on the Severn Valley Railway 's Kidderminster Station Coal Yard Branch Line . |
| 18 | Cash was the first country star since Jim Reeves to break out into the pop charts . |
| 19 | It was tense for a few minutes … but it was the first home game … and the first win at stake . |
| 20 | And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business . |
| 21 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |
| 22 | Its VCS ( Video Computer System ) was the first colour home game system , and sold over 20 million . |
| 23 | We decided it would be a good idea to develop a computer corpus of British English , intended to match the Brown University Corpus of American English which had recently become available , and which was the first computer corpus of modern English . |
| 24 | The Guyana Telecommunications Corporation was the first state company to be sold , 80 per cent of its shares being bought in January 1991 for US$16,500,000 by the Atlantic Telephone Network , a company based in the US Virgin Islands . |
| 25 | Caradryel achieved another distinction — he was the first Phoenix King to die peacefully in bed . |
| 26 | He was the first Phoenix King who did not inherit an unstable kingdom or take the throne in the aftermath of a war . |
| 27 | ‘ Hitler was the first rock star — the first to use a light show . |
| 28 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , who was the first woman Treasury minister when Mr Major formed his first government , was drafted into Conservative Central Office last year as joint deputy party chairman . |
| 29 | A strong force behind her husband 's career , she was the first woman chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1926 , a member of the Church Assembly 's house of laity from 1925 and of the archbishop 's commission on church and state ( 1930–5 ) , and succeeded her husband as a BBC governor . |
| 30 | She was the first woman jeweller to win a Council of Industry Design award in 1972 . |