Example sentences of "[verb] become [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 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 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 6 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 7 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 11 | Lady Martin Fitzalan-Howard of Brockfield Hall , Warthill , near York , has become the first woman to be appointed High Steward of Selby Abbey since it was founded in 1069 . |
| 12 | Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch . |
| 13 | He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that . |
| 14 | To have run the most glorious run of your life , to have become the first European to break ten seconds , to do it in an Olympic final — and then to be falsely accused of drug-taking by an officialdom that was frantically sniffing out Ben Johnsons like a Salem witchfinder ! |
| 15 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 16 | ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 17 | In that race Mafe , with 20.96 seconds , had become the first Briton to run under 21 seconds indoors . |
| 18 | Thanks to I have become the first DECcie to join the greatest mailing list in the world ; - ) . |
| 19 | United have become the first team in the League to break with tradition by getting rid of fixed term contracts for their coaching staff . |
| 20 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 21 | ESSEX police have become the first force in the country to run a Mazda as a police car . |
| 22 | SUNDERLAND have become the first dog track to dip a tentative toe into the contentious Sunday racing pool . |