Example sentences of "[num ord] became [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first seventeen designs carried the AIR– designation but in 1937 the eighteenth became the Ya–18 and during the Second World War the now well known Yak-prefix came into being . |
| 2 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 3 | Couville had been Corbett 's master and mentor when Hugh first became a clerk and , despite the gap in years and experience , they had become and remained firm friends . |
| 4 | He first became a builder in 1953 , in Communist Czechoslovakia , after being released from three years ' working in the uranium mines of Jachymov as part of a five year prison sentence for political offences . |
| 5 | I first became a Member of Parliament in 1979 , taking my place that summer as a back-bencher in what was to become an historic Parliament . |
| 6 | When I first became a Member of the House , I learned that one should never speak about things that one does not know or does not understand . |
| 7 | Personal Chair awarded ; Dr Murdoch first became a member of the department in 1992 . |
| 8 | Father Francis McLachlan first became a monk in 1924 . |
| 9 | He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions . |
| 10 | ‘ Earlier , when his drinking first became a problem , I tried to help . |
| 11 | Avraham Shochat , who became Minister of Finance , was regarded as a technocrat and as an advocate of increased privatization ; he first became a Knesset member in 1988 . |
| 12 | He can start in Scotland on December 13 by going back to his world title roots with a defence against rugged American Doug DeWitt , against whom Nigel first became a world champion by winning the WBO middleweight crown back in April 1990 . |
| 13 | Mrs Currie was the only Government representative when Aids first became an issue to go on television and demonstrate — with her hands — the way to put on a condom . |
| 14 | In fact , it 's a term that could be aptly used to describe that whole flowery genre of catch-all fiddle-and-flute pop that has sprouted up in this country since Mike Scott first became an executive member of An Bord lascaigh Mhara . |
| 15 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 16 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 17 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 18 | The general drive towards improving standards and putting the customer first became the subject of best selling books with inspiring titles like In Search of Excellence and The Winning Streak . |
| 19 | The Fat Controller and I next became the cotton entirely . |