Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun prp] become the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 2 | President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit Czechoslovakia on Oct. 13-20 . |
| 3 | What with one thing and another , it was left to Sir Geoffrey Howe to become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit all the countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | AN ATTEMPT by Mr John Taylor to become the first black Tory MP failed last night when the Liberal Democrats overturned a 4,896 Conservative majority to win Cheltenham . |
| 5 | In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country 's most populous state . |
| 6 | MADAME PIA DE BRANTES-PEARSON became the first ever client for dear friend Christian Lacroix 's fledgling couture house when she married the impossibly handsome Christopher Pearson in July 1987 wearing Lacroix 's shell pink taffeta meringue . |
| 7 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |
| 8 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 9 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |