Example sentences of "[noun prp] become 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 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1956 , Surridge 's last year , Surrey became the first county to beat the Australians since Hampshire did so in 1912 . |
| 9 | On Jan. 16 Hungary became the first country to establish bilateral diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republic of Moldova . |
| 10 | On Nov. 6 Hungary became the first east European country to join the Council of Europe . |
| 11 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country 's most populous state . |
| 14 | The Spencer soap opera was launched when Raine , daughter of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland , married Lord Spencer to become the first member of the cast . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Stephen Dundas became the first Scot to win The Amateur for 36 years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |
| 26 | Coventry became the first team to complete the double over fourth-placed Wednesday this season after winning 2–1 at Hillsborough in September . |
| 27 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 28 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 29 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 30 | In 1926 China became the first country in the Far East to permit kissing to be shown on its cinema screens . |