Example sentences of "[adj] became [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 2 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 3 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 4 | ‘ The vaunted land of the free became the last best hope of organised crime , and it has never recovered . |
| 5 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 6 | On 18 January 1948 , car 10 became the first modern car in regular service on the Marton route , fitted with upholstered seats and fluorescent lighting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Karelia on Aug. 10 became the first of the Soviet Union 's 20 autonomous Soviet Socialist republics ( ASSRs ) to issue a sovereignty declaration . |
| 9 | Hudson , 26 became the first player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa |
| 10 | His son George [ q.v. ] was secretary to David Hartley MP and at twenty-eight became the first British resident minister in Washington , USA ( 1791–5 ) , and was later under-secretary for foreign affairs . |
| 11 | Cyprus and Malta did so in July 1990 [ see p. 37625 ] , while Sweden in July 1991 became the second EFTA country ( after Austria ) to apply ; an essentially positive opinion on Austria 's application was issued , also in July , by the Commission [ see p. 38353 ] . |
| 12 | In truth , these became The 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions of The Border Regiment . |
| 13 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 14 | Georgia on July 31 became the 179th member of the United Nations [ for accessions of other former Soviet states see p. 38842 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On Saturday , Dave Ward 's Sunrays Cannon clocked 25.38 for the recently introduced 400 metres trip , while in Monday 's open races , Mona Wainright 's Sheffield-based Milebush Groovy became the first greyhound to win over the new 774 metres distance in 51.02 secs . |
| 17 | , Alexander William Charles Oliphant , Baron Murray of Elibank ( 1870–1920 ) , politician and company director , was born in Folkestone 12 April 1870 , the eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray , later tenth Baron Elibank ( peerage of Scotland ) , who in 1911 became the first Viscount Elibank ( UK peerage ) , and his wife Blanche Alice , daughter of Edward John Scott of Southsea , Hampshire . |
| 18 | THIRD DIVISION Maidstone United became the first casualty club of the new season yesterday — and the fear is more could follow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the UK 's IBM ‘ 93 Show in Birmingham last week , IBM UK Ltd became the first IBM company in Europe to publish an Open Options Catalogue of IBM and third party products available through mail order . |
| 21 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 22 | Croatia on July 8 became the 137th member of the International Maritime Organization . |
| 23 | On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite . |
| 24 | Ismail Mahomed became the first black judge in the country 's history when he took his seat in the Supreme Court on Aug. 12 . |
| 25 | The former became the first Serbian archbishop of the autocephalous Church established at Žiča in 1219 , and later moved to Peć . |
| 26 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 27 | Eric Clapton used to buy medium gauge sets , discard the sixth string and move the other strings across so that the 5th became the 6th , and used a plain banjo G string for the top E. |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No 55015 Tulyar having returned light engined from Edinburgh to York on 2 january 1982 became the last Deltic to be switched off by BR . |
| 30 | Our Aisling , two months in foal to Efisio , romped home by six lengths under top weight in the Millerhill Handicap , while Call Me I 'm Blue became the fifth favourite to oblige in the Tranent Handicap . |