Example sentences of "[noun prp] has become the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments .
2 The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union .
3 From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy .
4 We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out .
5 Steve has become the first sales manager in the branch .
6 Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council .
7 Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch .
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