Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] become the first " in BNC.
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1 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
2 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
3 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
4 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
5 | If enough wagons can be obtained with the necessary finance , this railway may well become the first to run such a train . |