Example sentences of "[adj] he become [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 2 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 3 | In 1854 he became the first official photographer to the British Museum , and received several commissions to photograph for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His family had regularly provided MPs for the adjacent borough of Plympton Erle since 1437 ; but in 1597 he became the first to represent the county . |
| 6 | When he took over his father 's stables in 1968 he became the fourth generation of the family to train at Newmarket but he broke tradition when he moved to North Yorkshire in 1970 . |