Example sentences of "the first black " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Holomisa , the first black officer to graduate from the South African army 's War College , must have seemed to be the perfect instrument , or stooge , of such a policy . |
| 2 | THE Los Angeles Raiders , who have lost three of their first four games , yesterday fired their coach , Mike Shanahan , and replaced him with Art Shell , their offensive line coach who becomes the first black head coach in the NFL since 1926 . |
| 3 | His Democratic opponent , Doug Wilder , hoping on 7 November to become the first black governor of a US state , has been forcing him to back-pedal since . |
| 4 | ART SHELL , the first black head coach in the modern NFL , recorded his first victory as the Los Angeles Raiders beat the New York Jets 14-7 . |
| 5 | In New York , television computer projections suggested Mr David Dinkins , a Democrat , would become the first black mayor of the city , beating the Republican , Mr Rudolph Giuliani . |
| 6 | The Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , has appointed Mr Paul Boateng to his front bench Treasury team , the first black MP to be given a front bench post . |
| 7 | THE Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , made history yesterday when he appointed Mr Paul Boateng to his front bench Treasury team , the first black MP to be given a front bench post in Parliament . |
| 8 | Mr Paul Boateng has been appointed to Labour 's front bench Treasury team , the first black MP to be given a front bench post in Parliament . |
| 9 | THE first black to command a US space mission , Air Force Colonel Fred Gregory , led a team of specialists aboard the space shuttle , Discovery , last night , for a secret mission believed to be the deployment of a spy satellite . |
| 10 | Wilder will be the first black governor in American history and the union endorsed him believing that he will ensure fairer treatment at the hands of state officials . |
| 11 | G.K. Chesterton on the artifice of the simple life is enough to turn a Green purple , Orwell on Gandhi is subtle and sinewy and James Baldwin on being the first black man in a Swiss valley is dignified and sad . |
| 12 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 13 | He was the gay romantic lead in Torch Song Trilogy and he played a naive straight-laced young officer hopelessly out of his depth in Glory , the well-intentioned but over-sentimental drama about the first black regiment to fight in the American Civil War . |
| 14 | THE first black woman MP represents a poor area in which a third are non-whites and health and housing are big issues . |
| 15 | AN ATTEMPT by Mr John Taylor to become the first black Tory MP failed last night when the Liberal Democrats overturned a 4,896 Conservative majority to win Cheltenham . |
| 16 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 17 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 18 | A British supporter thrust a Union Jack into my hand and I set off on my lap of honour , the first British sprinter to win the title in forty years , the first black man ever to win it . |
| 19 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 20 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 21 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 22 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 23 | India are currently in South Africa as the first black nation to play the Republic in a Test series while England 's invitation to visit The Cape is still in the pending tray . |
| 24 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 25 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 26 | But for his heart problems , which in his case are hereditary , Ashe , the first black male to win the Wimbledon singles title , might easily have become one of America 's leading politicians by now . |
| 27 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 28 | So ended the reign of the first black sporting symbol of significant proportions . |
| 29 | ‘ Bilalian ’ replaced ‘ Muslim ’ ( Bilal was an Ethiopian thought to be the first black follower of the prophet Muhammad ) . |
| 30 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |