Example sentences of "[noun] to become the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spencer soap opera was launched when Raine , daughter of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland , married Lord Spencer to become the first member of the cast . |
| 2 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 3 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 4 | In addition he served with great distinction in the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary and , having reached the statutory rule of fifteen years service , ‘ retired ’ from the Royal Infirmary to become the first surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 5 | It helped , albeit in an unpleasant way , in her campaign to become the next Mrs Jack Butler . |
| 6 | Silberzahn , a 54-year-old civil servant , replaced Gen. François Mermet to become the sixth head of the agency in seven years . |
| 7 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 8 | PATCHED up Instonians failed by a whisker to become the first team in five seasons to complete a home and away Harp Senior League double over Lisnagarvey . |
| 9 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 10 | But Squadron Leader , Bob Illett took time out of his hectic schedule to become the first RAF man to meet the refugees his detachment is helping . |
| 11 | But the stark reality they have to accept , after being crushed by a vibrant Coventry side , is that they are now also-rans in the race to become the first champions of the Premier League . |
| 12 | Pioline 's stunner ended Courier 's quest to become the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one year since the great Rod Laver won them all in 1969 . |
| 13 | The 46-year-old Arkansas Governor stormed to a series of victories to become the first Democrat in the White House since the departure of Jimmy Carter in 1980 . |
| 14 | She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot . |
| 15 | Longer follow up and possibly controlled clinical trials are needed to determine if metal stents have the potential to become the first choice treatment for persistent , symptomatic CP associated biliary stricture . |
| 16 | Patty Sheehan shot a final-round 67 at Woburn to become the first woman to win the US and British Opens in the same year . |
| 17 | The following Christmas she beat Gaye Brief by a neck in a thrilling race at Kempton Park and three months later ( in the meantime winning the Wessel Cable Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown ) took advantage of his absence from the Champion Hurdle line-up to become the first mare to win the race since African Sister in 1939 , though she had to fight hard before scrambling home by three quarters of a length from Cima . |
| 18 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 19 | And his perfect ending would be for Villa to become the first winners of the Premier League and break United 's hearts for the second successive season in a title run-in . |
| 20 | But team and stadium have been refurbished , and Larry Walker , a Canadian with the ability to become the next superstar outfielder , could lead them to a pennant . |
| 21 | There was a bid by Banbury School to opt out of local control , and in a poll among the parents sixty two percent voted against the Governor 's proposals to become the first school in Oxfordshire to leave County Council control . |
| 22 | On Feb. 25 the South Korean government announced that the authorization granted to the Daewoo conglomerate to become the first South Korean group to invest directly in the North had been suspended . |
| 23 | It was widely believed that Paul Muite would be persuaded by younger members of the party to become the fourth FORD candidate . |