Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] become the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANGELIC Antoinette Armes became the first girl to win a race round the Derby track when striking on Incola at Epsom yesterday , but favourite backers did their money before the start . |
| 2 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 3 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 4 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 5 | Last year one Middlesex student became the first to submit a postgraduate thesis as a video cassette tape . |
| 6 | On June 13 Theo Mitchell became the first black politician to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in South Carolina when he secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59 per cent of the vote ; Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell . |
| 7 | In 1983 Sheila Keech became the first British woman to receive a WFD medal of honour for services to the deaf . |
| 8 | Czechoslovakian President Havel became the first East European head of state to visit Israel , in April 1990 . |