Example sentences of "became the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
| 2 | The Department of Education and Science therefore took over the enlarged responsibilities of the Ministry created by Butler in 1944 , and Quintin Hogg ( who had divested himself of his peerage in the hope of succeeding Macmillan as Prime Minister ) became the first Secretary of State . |
| 3 | In 1822 , eight years after Thomas Lord [ q.v. ] had moved his famous turf to its last resting place at St John 's Wood , Aislabie became the first secretary of the MCC , the first sign of any real formality of organization . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 7 | INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE , 1987 Nouvel 's greatest triumph to date was also the first of President Mitterrand 's ‘ Grands Projets ’ and subsequently became the first building in a Western country to receive an Aga Khan Award . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 10 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 13 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 14 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 15 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 16 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |
| 17 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 18 | Durie became the first footballer to be convicted of feigning injury nine weeks ago after a confrontation with Coventry 's Andy Pearce in August . |
| 19 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 22 | In 1926 China became the first country in the Far East to permit kissing to be shown on its cinema screens . |
| 23 | The individual histories of such families should be a major concern of all those who wish to understand how Britain became the first country in the world to undergo an Industrial Revolution . |
| 24 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 25 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 26 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 27 | Robert Bickerstaffe was the coxswain of the first Blackpool lifeboat for 23 years until he retired in 1887 , and one of his sons , John , became the first chairman of the Blackpool Tower Company — neatly linking the Institution with the title of the book ! |
| 28 | After William Morris 's death in 1896 , Benson also became the first chairman of William Morris & Co . |
| 29 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 30 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |