Example sentences of "[num] became the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 2 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 3 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 4 | Hudson , 26 became the first player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa |
| 5 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 6 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 7 | On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite . |
| 8 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |