Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [art] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 2 | A student has made education history by becoming the first in the country to pass a new exam . |
| 3 | The young soldier Lev Tolstoy made his literary debut by publishing the first of three Sevastopol " Stories in The Contemporary in June . |
| 4 | Although a recent constitutional amendment protected a new government from a motion of no confidence during the first 18 months of its existence , it appeared unlikely that Wingti 's new government would be strong enough to break the country 's traditional pattern of politics by becoming the first since independence to survive from one general election to the next . |
| 5 | In 1982 , Lloyd identified those needs and filled the vacuum by providing the first of the clubs that the 1990's tennis player — and his family — desired . |