Example sentences of "[vb pp] to become the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted . |
| 3 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 4 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 5 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |