Example sentences of "became [art] first country " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1926 China became the first country in the Far East to permit kissing to be shown on its cinema screens . |
| 2 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 3 | On the same day Chile became the first country to sign a debt-reduction agreement under the US " Enterprise for the Americas Initiative " [ see above ] . |
| 4 | France became the first country to complete the ratification process when the accord was approved by the National Assembly on the night of June 3-4 and by the Senate on June 27-28 . |
| 5 | Reflecting the Nordic countries ' close relations with the Baltic states Iceland on Aug. 26 , 1991 , became the first country formally to establish diplomatic relations with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 6 | Hungary also became the first country to establish full diplomatic relations with Ukraine on Dec. 7 . |
| 7 | On Jan. 16 Hungary became the first country to establish bilateral diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republic of Moldova . |
| 8 | As officials lit a cutting torch to destroy a Soviet-made armoured car and a cannon at a military base near Erfurt on Aug. 3 , Germany became the first country to destroy arms under the terms of the Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) treaty signed in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |