Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The bad weather has also forced Rebecca Stephens to delay her attempt to become the first British woman to climb Everest . |
| 5 | It helped , albeit in an unpleasant way , in her campaign to become the next Mrs Jack Butler . |
| 6 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 7 | In 1888 Smith , a conscientious and outwardly austere man , gave up his business to become the first full-time secretary of the BB , his salary being donated by prominent Scottish businessmen . |