Example sentences of "it become the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 3 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 4 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 5 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 6 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |