Example sentences of "the first woman [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SARAH Banks is the first woman candidate ever to fight Durham City . |
| 2 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , who was the first woman Treasury minister when Mr Major formed his first government , was drafted into Conservative Central Office last year as joint deputy party chairman . |
| 3 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 4 | Dame Janet Fookes , who could become the Tory nominee for the first woman Speaker . |
| 5 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 6 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 7 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |
| 8 | Michael Morris will sit in for Betty Boothroyd … the first woman Speaker , who was elected last week . |
| 9 | A Left-winger and a staunch campaigner against nuclear weapons , she became the first woman chairman of the Tribune Group . |
| 10 | A strong force behind her husband 's career , she was the first woman chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1926 , a member of the Church Assembly 's house of laity from 1925 and of the archbishop 's commission on church and state ( 1930–5 ) , and succeeded her husband as a BBC governor . |
| 11 | The posting , which places her in command of some 12,000 soldiers across four counties , makes her the first woman brigadier to be appointed to a command role . |
| 12 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 13 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
| 14 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 15 | One of the strongest messages of disagreement comes from Dr Rosabeth Moss Kanter , the first woman editor of the prestigious Harvard Business Review . |
| 16 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Defender also had the distinction of having the first woman finisher , Mandy Gallow . |
| 18 | Will Kelly Connor be the first woman champion Jockey ? |
| 19 | Who was the first woman MP to be elected to Westminster ? |
| 20 | Who was the first woman MP to take her seat at Westminster ? |
| 21 | ON THIS DAY : In 1919 , Lady Astor became the first woman MP to take her seat in the Commons . |
| 22 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
| 23 | She became one of the notable personalities of the House of Commons , and in 1952 she was the first woman MP to be suspended from a sitting . |
| 24 | Jacqueline Clements writes ‘ In 1989 I became a partner in the Lincoln 's Inn Firm of Hunters — the first woman partner in 275 years ’ . |
| 25 | Chicago-born , she was the first woman graduate of London School of Economics ; widely travelled , she lived ‘ a romantic life ’ , and nursed Woolley lovingly in his final years . |
| 26 | Norrish was elected last May to be the first woman president of the 150-year-old club . |
| 27 | The Club is proud to have as this year 's President Sue Locke , the first woman President in the Club 's history . |
| 28 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |
| 29 | The first woman president of the Co-operative Congress , Margaret Llewelyn Davies in the year of her retirement , 1922 , declared : ‘ Our programme transfers the power of capitalism into the hands of the people organised democratically as consumers ; makes capital the servant of labour ; allows for a partnership with the workers ; abolishes profit , socialises rent , and will ultimately get rid of the present wages system . ’ |
| 30 | She was the first woman sculptor , and only deaf woman , to be made a member of any Royal Academy in the British Isles . |