Example sentences of "[noun sg] become [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 2 | The ultimate clinical course of the colitis became evident during the first year of the study and there was no difference between the one year analysis and the final analysis ( Table II ) performed after a mean follow up of 2.8 years in the placebo group and 3.0 years in the cyclosporin group . |
| 3 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 4 | Shortly after incitement to racial hatred became criminal for the first time in 1965 , for example , some commentators questioned whether Jewish persons were covered by the Act , pointing to the argument that the Jewish community has a religious rather than a racial identity . |
| 5 | The inevitability of death becomes real for the first time . |