Example sentences of "[adj] to become [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 2 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 3 | Merv Hughes hit an enormous six and Mark Taylor made 164 to become the first player to score 1,000 runs in the course of his first season of Tests , but Australia 's batsmen did not escape the day without damage from an attack weakened by injury to both its opening bowlers . |
| 4 | A new gamma-ray observatory satellite to be launched in 2001 seems likely to become the first joint space mission between European , Russian and US space agencies . |
| 5 | Harford , who moved to Chelsea last summer and has since scored 10 goals , is now backing United to become the first Premier League champions . |
| 6 | Orton Chirwa qualified in London in 1958 to become the first African barrister in the country . |
| 7 | ‘ The 17m prototype , FAB 3 , is undergoing the most rigorous sea trials which will continue until we can be completely satisfied that she is in every way suitable to become the first of a new generation of fast All-weather lifeboats . |
| 8 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 9 | Kadi Ayatholugh , muderris in Aghras ( Agras , now Atabey ) , then passed on to the service of Molla Khidr Bey ( Hizir Bey : d. 863/1459 ) -later to become the first kadi of Istanbul but at this time muderris at the Sultan medrese ( the medrese of Mehmed I ) in Bursa — becoming his . |