Example sentences of "[pers pn] become [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 32 | Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada . |
| 33 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 34 | In the U.S.A. , a new rocket for space exploration , called ‘ Little Joe ’ was launched in May 1964 , and it became the first in a series under the name of ‘ Apollo ’ . |
| 35 | They modernised the mill and it is believed that it became the first in Britain to make paper from wood , ie : the first Natron-cellulose pulp mill in Europe . |
| 36 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 37 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 38 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 39 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 40 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 41 | In the wake of the Russian revolution , which she supported passionately , it became the first Communist party in Great Britain . |
| 42 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 43 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 44 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 45 | Several clubs from the Football League sought to tempt Harry away from the Palace , but without success , and he became the first Palace player to be awarded a Benefit by our club — it was the Southern League encounter with Coventry City at the Palace on 12 October 1912. 9,000 fans turned up and the Palace won 3–0 . |
| 46 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 47 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 48 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |
| 49 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 50 | He became the first Portuguese emigrant to be allowed a licence to open a liquor store there . |
| 51 | He became the first Marquess of Exeter in 1801 and he died in 1804 , aged 50 . |
| 52 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 53 | He became the first Australian leg-spinner since Bill O'Reilly against South Africa in 1936-37 to claim five wickets in an innings at the MCG . |
| 54 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 55 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 56 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |
| 57 | Running for Darlington , he became the first man to run 100 yards in even time ( 10 seconds dead ) under championship conditions when he took the Amateur Athletics Association ( AAA ) title in 1886 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 58 | The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham-Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . |
| 59 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 60 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |