Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] become the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But Jodi , a Rhodes scholar , will get her chance later this month , when she becomes the first woman to turn out for the men in the annual varsity match against Cambridge . |
2 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
3 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
4 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
5 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
6 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
7 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
8 | The Palais du Prince du Sommeil , written by Celestin de Mirbel in 1667 actually advises in his preface that , " The favours of the strictest ladies will be wholly won for you , at the moment when you become the sympathetic interpreter of their dreams " — certainly a pragmatic reason for buying his dream-book . |
9 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
10 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
11 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
12 | The nickname stuck after 1930 when he became the youngest player to appear in a Cup final , and by 1931 , before his twenty-first birthday , he had won Cup , Championship and international honours . |
13 | CHRIS Balderstone will create history at Lord 's tomorrow when he becomes the first umpire to sit in judgement during a Test in England . |
14 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
15 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
16 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
17 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
18 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
19 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |