Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] become [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 10 | Mrs Elliott broke new ground when she became the first woman solicitor in the firm about 15 years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |