Example sentences of "become the first [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take Me ’ became the first song to appear in the charts two years running . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 4 | ( Phoebe ) Bradley became the first lady to serve on the Club Committee , an event doubly unique , for although not a bondholder she was elected by their Committee to represent them for a four-year term . |
| 5 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 6 | ANGELIC Antoinette Armes became the first girl to win a race round the Derby track when striking on Incola at Epsom yesterday , but favourite backers did their money before the start . |
| 7 | When Abbey national became the first lender to win no less than three Which Mortgage awards : Best Overall Lender , Best First-time Buyers Product and Best High Street Bank in 1991 , the company proved how efficient and comprehensive its mortgage services are . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas , 50 , who abandoned politics in 1984 after being diagnosed as suffering from cancer , became the first person to declare his candidacy for the Democratic Party 's nomination for the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 10 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 11 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fernandez later became the first major upset in the tournament when she lost 6–2 6–2 to fellow American Ginger Helgeson in the second round . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | France became the first country to complete the ratification process when the accord was approved by the National Assembly on the night of June 3-4 and by the Senate on June 27-28 . |
| 16 | Hungary also became the first country to establish full diplomatic relations with Ukraine on Dec. 7 . |
| 17 | On Jan. 16 Hungary became the first country to establish bilateral diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republic of Moldova . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 20 | He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 . |
| 21 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 22 | On Saturday , Dave Ward 's Sunrays Cannon clocked 25.38 for the recently introduced 400 metres trip , while in Monday 's open races , Mona Wainright 's Sheffield-based Milebush Groovy became the first greyhound to win over the new 774 metres distance in 51.02 secs . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1907 Freeth , billed as THE MAN WHO WALKS ON WATER , became the first surfer to ride a wave on the mainland coast , while Californians rode Huntington 's trains to go to watch him . |
| 24 | Soon , he became the first man to drive on an Icelandic glacier . |
| 25 | ENGLAND 'S 1973–74 Test series in West Indies had many things to savour : Sobers became the first man to score 8000 Test runs . |
| 26 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |
| 27 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 28 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 29 | His career did not end there , for in 1903 , when the light heavyweight division was created , he became the first man to win three world titles when he became the world light heavyweight champion after beating George Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco . |
| 30 | 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 . |