Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Clough has become the Spitting Image of himself , playing a parody while Forest burns . |
| 2 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 4 | But in the US and Japan , Nintendo has become the standard , with NEC and Sega being the main challengers . |
| 5 | And now Mark Taylor has become the genial Indian 's 400th victim . |
| 6 | Now , with the opening of Eastern Europe , united Germany has become the preferred destination for thousands of refugees fleeing hardship at home . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , CCOO has become the dominant union among certain occupational groups . |
| 8 | Taizé has become the focus of religious renewal for thousands of people and its music is their chief way of entering into the Community 's worship . |
| 9 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 10 | In the eyes of Australia , Gould has become the ‘ Father of Ornithology ’ . |
| 11 | Now Nigel has become the biggest noise in steam |
| 12 | IN THIS rural suburb of Los Angeles , a 59-year-old from New England has become the car industry 's most revered , and feared , oracle . |
| 13 | But the real division in Britain is geographical , which is why the West Midlands has become the decisive battlefield in elections , the Debatable Land , where neither establishment is dominant . |
| 14 | During his time the Kamara has become the accepted Club base in ‘ Ag Nik ’ , partly because of its central position seven minutes form the beach and about three minutes from the ‘ West End ’ , and partly because the bar here is a focal meeting point for 18–30 's from all over the resort . |
| 15 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 16 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 17 | One of the busiest ports in Spain , Las Palmas has become the traditional port of call for yachts on their way to the Caribbean . |
| 18 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 19 | More recently , of course , Hytner has become the internationally acclaimed director of Miss Saigon , but he claims that he does n't want just to be a director of musicals , or only of anything else for that matter . |
| 20 | The UK has become the largest fast food market in Europe — by 1990 there were about 1,500 fast food outlets in the UK . |
| 21 | Because of its strategic position Strasbourg has become the rail centre of Europe . |
| 22 | Cleveland SSD has become the latest department to face a judicial review from private care home owners angry about their contracts . |
| 23 | What used to be like the Old Vic has become the vaudeville of Thatcherism Undone . |
| 24 | The campaign against the repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong has become the latest cause celebre in the ufdrop |
| 25 | And now Kate Adie has become the Benny Hill of television journalism . |
| 26 | From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy . |
| 27 | PAUL GASCOIGNE has become the most indispensable player in the history of the English team … and , thankfully , Graham Taylor recognises the fact . |
| 28 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 29 | Mr Donnelly , consultant surgeon at Liverpool 's Cardiothoracic Centre , has told of his hopes for a three-year study to find out why Merseyside has become the lung cancer capital of the world . |
| 30 | It 's a long way from the wild west ; more of a vale where the only horse around is the white one carved on a hill nearby , but Uffington has become the annual venue for the national gun slinging championships . |