Example sentences of "become the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council .
2 A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother .
3 In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning .
4 ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey .
5 ESSEX police have become the first force in the country to run a Mazda as a police car .
6 From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy .
7 Lady Martin Fitzalan-Howard of Brockfield Hall , Warthill , near York , has become the first woman to be appointed High Steward of Selby Abbey since it was founded in 1069 .
8 Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch .
9 United have become the first team in the League to break with tradition by getting rid of fixed term contracts for their coaching staff .
10 The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments .
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