Example sentences of "[noun] became the first [noun sg] " 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 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 3 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 4 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Last year , Campbell Christie became the first person to take complaints over GCHQ to the tribunals , naming a section at the communications centre , K24e , as being responsible for intercepting telexes sent by trade unionists in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | JAMES Courtney became the first man to win the Manx Grand Prix Lightweight , Junior and Newcomers Lightweight races when he completed a double in the Isle of Man yesterday . |
| 10 | In 1956 , Surridge 's last year , Surrey became the first county to beat the Australians since Hampshire did so in 1912 . |
| 11 | On Jan. 16 Hungary became the first country to establish bilateral diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republic of Moldova . |
| 12 | On Nov. 6 Hungary became the first east European country to join the Council of Europe . |
| 13 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 16 | In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country 's most populous state . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The first game was notable in that , apart from a demanding first win , Sebastian Sloane became the first Rugby schoolboy to score a five point try . |
| 19 | It does seem however , from the evidence of the Australian National University concerning the Gogo lungfish , that a complicated scenario arose where other techniques of air-breathing occurred accidentally , and that air-sac creatures invaded freshwater habitats while the diaphragm-breathers became the first land inhabitants . |
| 20 | This , at length , came under the control of Virgin , as the principal British investors , and The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle became the first production of a new company , Virgin Films . |
| 21 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
| 22 | Stephen Dundas became the first Scot to win The Amateur for 36 years . |
| 23 | True to historical precedent , it required a white rock musician to have a hit with a black man 's song — in this case Eric Clapton with ‘ I Shot the Sheriff ’ — before the breakthrough could occur ; but at length Bob Marley became the first reggae superstar . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 26 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 27 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 30 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |