Example sentences of "to become the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hutton , later to become the first professional captain of England and knighted in 1956 , joined the ranks of those who had to embody the hopes and expectations of an England creaking under the weight of its industrial and imperial past , but whose sense of destiny was still quite strong . |
| 2 | Harford , who moved to Chelsea last summer and has since scored 10 goals , is now backing United to become the first Premier League champions . |
| 3 | Orton Chirwa qualified in London in 1958 to become the first African barrister in the country . |
| 4 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 5 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 6 | In the event , John Conteh dropped down a division and Johnson took his place , proving the legitimacy of his claim by beating two contenders and then the champion to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 7 | In 1975 , he realized an ambition he had nursed since his arrival : to become the first black heavyweight champion of Great Britain . |
| 8 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 9 | His Democratic opponent , Doug Wilder , hoping on 7 November to become the first black governor of a US state , has been forcing him to back-pedal since . |
| 10 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 11 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 12 | In 1888 Smith , a conscientious and outwardly austere man , gave up his business to become the first full-time secretary of the BB , his salary being donated by prominent Scottish businessmen . |
| 13 | A new gamma-ray observatory satellite to be launched in 2001 seems likely to become the first joint space mission between European , Russian and US space agencies . |
| 14 | Last to putt , Treleaven sent his 14-footer into the cup to become the first Hampshire-born player to win the Salver and the first home county champion since Ian Gray in 1982 . |
| 15 | Thus , not only will the Cavalier beat the Mondeo to become the first medium-sized saloon to boast one as standard but it will , Vauxhall stressed , have the bigger ( and by implication , better ) US-style bag rather than the smaller ( and , by implication , less effective ) Eurobag . |
| 16 | The bank is planning a European and American roadshow on April 28 and is negotiating to become the first Portuguese company with a full overseas listing on one of the American stock exchanges . |
| 17 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 18 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 19 | The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm on an unfinished mission — to become the first British heavyweight champion this century and bring those championship belts back to England , ’ he said . |
| 21 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 22 | An impressive 2-0 win over Everton left the watching Germans in no doubt that Leeds are in the mood to become the first British team to win a European tie from 3-0 down . |
| 23 | The bad weather has also forced Rebecca Stephens to delay her attempt to become the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 24 | Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp . |
| 25 | Tom ( left ) will be six and Kate ( right ) four by the time next year when Alison , as part of the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest . |
| 26 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 27 | Doumen would love to become the first French trainer to accomplish that remarkable double . |
| 28 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 29 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |