Example sentences of "[num ord] black [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " 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 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 3 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |