Example sentences of "became the first [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 5 | Anderson became the first black player to play in a full international game for England in 1979 . |
| 6 | Leeds United 's winger Albert Johanneson became the first black player to appear at Wembley in the 1965 Cup Final against Liverpool , who won 2–1 after extra time . |
| 7 | On June 13 Theo Mitchell became the first black politician to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in South Carolina when he secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59 per cent of the vote ; Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell . |
| 8 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |
| 9 | Emperor Akihito on Oct. 23 became the first Japanese monarch to visit China , and the highest-ranking foreigner to visit China since the 1989 suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square . |
| 10 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 11 | In February 1991 Malaysia became the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in Ho Chi Minh City , the country 's commercial capital . |
| 12 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 13 | By the end of the year she was rewriting the record books as — with her UK sales alone more than 2 million — she became the first female artist to have her first five singles go silver . |
| 14 | She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice . |
| 15 | During the talks Mubarak became the first Arab leader to accept the US suggestion that the Arab countries should drop their economic boycott of Israel in return for an Israeli freeze on its settlement activities . |
| 16 | Lyric Fantasy , brilliant winner of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot in June , later became the first two-year-old filly to win the all-aged Nunthorpe Stakes . |
| 17 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |
| 18 | JOHN WRIGHT hit an unbeaten 38 to became the first New Zealander to score 5,000 Test runs as he steered the Kiwis towards a draw against Sri Lanka in Colombo yesterday . |
| 19 | Duncan Heenan , who four years ago became the first chartered accountant to swim the Channel ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1988 , p 68 ) , is still , it seems , addicted to spending hours at a time submerged in cold , murky water . |
| 20 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |
| 21 | BRIDE Laura Browne , 34 , arrived in Cinderella 's glass coach yesterday as she and fiance Robbie Carter , 38 , from Silsoe , Beds , became the first British couple to marry at Disney World , Florida . |
| 22 | In 1983 Sheila Keech became the first British woman to receive a WFD medal of honour for services to the deaf . |
| 23 | Shortly before 8am on Monday , Ms Stephens , 31 , a journalist from Fulham , west London , became the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 24 | Macari signed for Celtic in 1966 , and was an exciting reserve prospect during the Lisbon Lion era , when the club became the first British team to win the coveted European Cup . |
| 25 | It had the foresight to see the possibilities of trade with the newly arrived Ottoman power which had moved into the Bosnian hinterland , and , armed with a papal dispensation from Urban V , Ragusa became the first Christian power to enter into treaty relations with the infidels . |
| 26 | Never one to rest of the chic laurels he had begun to gather , in the mid-Seventies Lagerfeld became the first ready-to-wear designer to have his own fragrance . |
| 27 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 28 | Monaco became the first French club to reach the final when they drew 2–2 in Rotterdam with Feyenoord , going through on away goals after the 1–1 draw in the Principality . |
| 29 | In 1986 , Peter Hillary — son of the famous Sir Edmund — became the first foreign tourist to repeat this route since that great mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton , 40 years previously , on his way to take up a consular appointment in the Chinese outpost of Kashgar . |
| 30 | DANIEL SILVA , who numbers Nigel Mansell among his sponsors , became the first Portuguese player to win on tour when he handed in a closing 73 to finish two shots clear of Chris Moody in the Jersey European Airways Open . |