Example sentences of "became the first [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 2 | The city became the first major growth point of the Central Lowlands . |
| 3 | In a joint venture with Petrolimex , the Vietnamese state oil company , BP became the first major oil company to build a lubricants blending plant and to market lubricants in that country . |
| 4 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 5 | The club had been the subject of sustained criticism since October 1988 , when Hibs became the first Scottish football team to be quoted on the Stock Exchange . |