Example sentences of "[noun prp] become the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formal veterinary instruction began in France in 1762 , when the world 's first veterinary school opened in Lyons , where a 24-year-old named Laurent Gaillard became the first pupil on 16 February . |
| 2 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 3 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 4 | In 1822 , eight years after Thomas Lord [ q.v. ] had moved his famous turf to its last resting place at St John 's Wood , Aislabie became the first secretary of the MCC , the first sign of any real formality of organization . |
| 5 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 6 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 7 | The Spencer soap opera was launched when Raine , daughter of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland , married Lord Spencer to become the first member of the cast . |
| 8 | In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran . |
| 9 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 10 | Milan became the first city in which all the houses had glass in their windows rather than draped waxed canvas , a material that was virtually opaque and frequently filthy . |
| 11 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 12 | In 1926 China became the first country in the Far East to permit kissing to be shown on its cinema screens . |
| 13 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 14 | A member of the university who had taught Lutheran doctrines , Hamilton became the first martyr of the Scottish Reformation . |
| 15 | Durie became the first footballer to be convicted of feigning injury nine weeks ago after a confrontation with Coventry 's Andy Pearce in August . |
| 16 | Lady Astor became the first woman to be elected a member of parliament in 1919 , and Sir Herbert Austin , a major car manufacturer , was elected as the member of parliament for King 's Norton . |
| 17 | Hunt became the first Briton since Jackie Stewart in 1973 to win the title , but the real hero of the most dramatic of World Championships was Niki Lauda . |
| 18 | It is a matter of history that Austin became the first Englishman to regularly employ the new-fangled back crawl , which all swimmers use today but was then regarded as something of an eccentricity . |
| 19 | The individual histories of such families should be a major concern of all those who wish to understand how Britain became the first country in the world to undergo an Industrial Revolution . |
| 20 | Two years later Mawson became the first president of the Institute of Landscape Architecture . |
| 21 | And to add to the Blues ' tale of woe , Glen Keeley became the first player to be sent off on his debut in a Merseyside derby . |
| 22 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |
| 23 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 24 | Fairbrother became the first batsman in this country to be given not out by a third umpire after TV replays of a close run-out incident had been studied . |
| 25 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |
| 26 | Ellen Schneider-Lenne became the first woman on the board of Morgan Grenfell in its 151-year history , thanks to its takeover by Deutsche Bank . |
| 27 | Leicester becomes the first casualty of the jumps season . |