Example sentences of "become one [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 2 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 3 | Approval was granted upon inspection on the 19th March 1888 and the line continued to operate until 1953 ; by that time it was owned by the National Coal Board , thus becoming one of the first nationalised railways . |
| 4 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 5 | De La Rue , the security printing and payments systems group , has become one of the first companies to announce results under FRS 3 . |
| 6 | Billy Hamilton , who retired from Rentokil several years ago , [ formerly working with Pest Control in Belfast and still collecting debts for the company ] has become one of the first people in Northern Ireland to be presented with a commemorative medal from the Soviet authorities . |
| 7 | Paul has become one of the first fans to have his room decorated with the wallpaper . |
| 8 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 9 | Susan , Anne 's daughter by Didier , became one of the first geniuses of the form , moulding her night fantasies into unforgettably affecting tapestries of emotion and narrative . |
| 10 | In joining John Dickinson at Croxley Mills in 1931 , Grant became one of the first qualified scientists to be employed by the paper industry and his contributions and experience proved invaluable to him throughout his subsequent career . |
| 11 | He went to a qualified medical practitioner for his first experience in 1963 and , according to himself , became one of the first people in the country to take the drug . |
| 12 | George Lansbury himself became one of the first reforming Poor Law Guardians in East London in the 1890s , and the social legislation of the Liberals , including the state Old Age Pension introduced in 1908 , was a direct response to the rising political influence of the labour movement . |
| 13 | Guided by the Chief Officer , the county became one of the first to introduce comprehensive schools of a new style , as well as fresh methods of teaching in its primary schools , and an immense explosion of organized music teaching all over the county . |
| 14 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 15 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 16 | Her parents have done well ; her father became one of the first Afro-Caribbean councillors in inner London . |
| 17 | Alanson became one of the first three surgeons appointed to the Liverpool dispensary in 1778 . |
| 18 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 19 | He thus became one of the first modern land surveyors . |
| 20 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 21 | In October 1871 she became one of the first five students at Newnham College , Cambridge , founded by Henry Sidgwick [ q.v. ] with Anne Clough [ q.v. ] , a Bulley family friend , in charge . |
| 22 | Born in what was now Inner Mongolia , Ulanhu became one of the first Mongol members of the CCP when he joined in 1925 . |
| 23 | Country Landowners Association president Lord De Ramsey became one of the first of British agriculture 's leaders to meet the new Minister . |
| 24 | He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald |
| 25 | One sherpa — Tensing Norgay accompanied Sir Edward Hillary and became one of the first men to climb Mt . |
| 26 | According to Professor Morag Timbury of Glasgow Royal Infirmary ‘ acyclovir seems set to become one of the first effective anti-viral agents that can be given systemically in safety . ’ |
| 27 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 28 | Expertise in the medium of song may have led Bedyngham to become one of the first composers , along with Walter Frye and Guillermus Dufay , to experiment with the technique of building a Mass cycle not on plainchant , but on a model taken from secular music . |
| 29 | Labour council leader John Williams and Mr Milburn yesterday produced a declaration arguing for Darlington to become one of the first unitary authorities under local government reform . |