Example sentences of "[vb past] become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that race Mafe , with 20.96 seconds , had become the first Briton to run under 21 seconds indoors . |
| 2 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 3 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 4 | Norway had become the first NATO member to establish diplomatic relations with Russia , following moves by Bulgaria and Hungary . |
| 5 | In the week before the visit , Keating had become the first Prime Minister to suggest that Australia drop the Union Flag device from its own , further fuelling public debate between republicans and monarchists about Australia 's status . |
| 6 | On March 31 it was announced that the Katowice Commercial and Credit Bank had become the first Polish bank to go bankrupt . |
| 7 | Estonia ( not a CIS member ) had become the first ex-Soviet republic to replace the rouble by its own currency [ see p. 38971 ] . |
| 8 | In the mayoral elections in Rio de Janeiro , César Maia of the PMDB defeated Benedia da Silva of the PT , who in 1987 had become the first black woman member of the Congress . |
| 9 | ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 10 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 11 | Branwell 's toy soldier , Bonaparte , had become the strong , bad , good-looking Duke of Northangerland . |
| 12 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 13 | The weekly magazine La Vie Au Grand Air had become the official publication of the 1900 Games . |
| 14 | But it was the Labour Party which had become the official Opposition in 1918 . |
| 15 | By then , of course , the hostages had become the chief cause . |
| 16 | For the anarchists , the POUM and sections of the Socialist left the social revolution within the Republican zone had become the chief reason for fighting fascism and , indeed , the only basis upon which workers and poor peasants could be expected to fight it . |
| 17 | In all parts of the country Wesleyan Methodism had become the chief alternative to the Established Church and in purely agricultural regions religious differences often amounted to a choice between either the Church of England or Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism . |
| 18 | In their view the recently created Riverside DHA which had become the managing agency , was interested only in providing hospital services and had paid scant , if any , attention to the need for a range of after-care facilities across the statutory and non-statutory sectors . |
| 19 | Electricity , hardly out of its infancy in 1900 , had become the major source of power for what has been called " America 's second industrial revolution " . |
| 20 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 21 | The kinship systems of Australian aborigines , Pacific islanders and Iroquois Indians , which the ancestors of modern social anthropology like Lewis Morgan(1818–81) now began to study seriously — though the subject was still primarily studied in the library rather than in the field — were seen as ‘ survivals ’ of earlier stages in the evolution of what had become the nineteenth-century family . |
| 22 | He had become the representative voice of the nation under threat , and in the early months of 1940 he wrote a patriotic poem , " Defence of the Islands " , to accompany an exhibition of British war photographs at the New York World 's Fair . |
| 23 | At the end of the Second World War , Japan and China were both rundown but China had become the poor neighbour , a condition the students were not satisfied to accept without questions . |
| 24 | By 1960 , power stations had become the largest single source . |
| 25 | They had become the largest property owners in North America and beyond that , the world . |
| 26 | By the 1870s Cardiff had become the largest town in Wales and the marquess was being hailed as its ‘ creator ’ . |
| 27 | The DNSF , the party of President Iliescu , had become the largest parliamentary party in the September elections [ see pp. 39104 ; 39150-51 ] . |
| 28 | Thirty years earlier Guinness had become the largest brewers in Ireland . |
| 29 | Indians and seringueiros alike had become the virtual slaves of the rubber barons and their descendants , who suppresed the indigenous people 's culture and kept the imported labourers in debt bondage . |
| 30 | Going out to work had become the normal pattern of their lives , not a deviant one . |