Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] become the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 2 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 3 | Karelia on Aug. 10 became the first of the Soviet Union 's 20 autonomous Soviet Socialist republics ( ASSRs ) to issue a sovereignty declaration . |
| 4 | The Liberals on Aug. 11 became the first to merge their West and East German organizations , forming a joint party known as " FDP-the Liberals " at a party congress in Hannover . |
| 5 | Todor Zhivkov on Feb. 25 became the first of Eastern Europe 's ousted communist leaders to go on public trial , 14 months after the " palace coup " which had ended his 35 years in power . |
| 6 | Emperor Akihito on Oct. 23 became the first Japanese monarch to visit China , and the highest-ranking foreigner to visit China since the 1989 suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square . |