Sentence examples for might become first from inspiring English sources

By the 1960s Corman had a set-up not unlike the one Berry Gordy cooked up for Tamla-Motown, where a secretary like Martha Reeves might become first a back-up singer between typing memos, and then a superstar Vandella.

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But when Barack Obama emerged as a leading candidate during the 2008 primaries, Mrs. DeBose and her friends had to make an agonizing choice between supporting a candidate who could become the first female president, or the one who might become the first black one.

Braun finished fourth last year and was hopeful that he might become the first American man to win since 1984, but it didn't work out for him.

His chosen break is, instead, meant to replenish his ambition so that he might become the first captain in history to lift the World Cup a second time, when he hopes to lead the All Blacks in the 2015 tournament.

REBOUNDS Reggie Evans might become the first player fined for flopping, depending on how the league views a third-quarter play involving Evans and Metta World Peace.

Lord Bryce, the English traveler, suggested that Providence might become the first American city-state.

Diatoms might become the first organisms for which the gap in our knowledge of the relationship between genotype and phenotype is closed.

Apple's valuation topped $900 billion, and market watchers speculated about when it might become the first trillion-dollar company.

Some London newspapers then speculated that Mr. Neiland might become the first academy member to be expelled since 1799.

The Chinese press had earlier reported that Mr Liang might become the first private entrepreneur to be appointed to the party's central committee.