Example sentences of "become the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former title-holder , Jansher Khan , also from Pakistan , plays Bryan Beeson , who became the second Briton to reach the last eight by overcoming Jason Nicolle , 15-7 , 15-13 , 15-6 in a tussle of English giant-killers . |
| 2 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 3 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 4 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 5 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 6 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 7 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 8 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 9 | The consultant psychogeriatrician in the London Borough of Newham was one of those approached , and as he responded most quickly and positively , Newham became the second area in which the project was to be set up . |
| 10 | Looking unusually demure , Jennie Walker who became the second Mrs Tiller |
| 11 | Sampson became the second ( Marsden was the first ) Yorkshire player to represent the Players against the Gentlemen when he played in the Lord 's fixture of 1841 . |
| 12 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 13 | SOUTH AFRICAN captain Kepler Wessels became the second cricketer to be dismissed by a TV replay yesterday , adjudged run-out against India on the fourth day of the second Test in Johannesburg . |
| 14 | The early 1980s was a time of immense fertility for blacks in sport : as well as their presence in athletics , boxing and soccer , Desmond Douglas established himself as the top table tennis player in the UK , ; Eugene Codrington consolidated his captaincy of the British karate team ( composed mainly of other blacks ) and Roland Butcher became the second black player to play for an MCC touring side ( the first being Basil D'Oliviera of South Africa ) . |
| 15 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 16 | Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he dismissed Mark Taylor at Perth |
| 17 | KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series . |
| 18 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 19 | Redditch ( 1964 ) , a flourishing old town in its own right , became the second and last New Town for the Midlands . |
| 20 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 21 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 22 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 23 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , in Belfast , became the second leading Belfast hotel to feel the wrath of the bombers within four days . |
| 24 | On Nov. 6 , 1989 , after 17 years of debate , Massachusetts became the second state to pass a civil rights law for homosexuals . |
| 25 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 26 | Joan Kirner became the second woman to lead an Australian state government when she was elected Premier of Victoria , on Aug. 9 , by the state 's ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) . |
| 27 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 28 | 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 ] . |
| 29 | Latvia thus became the second ex-Soviet republic ( following Estonia ) to replace the rouble with its own currency . |
| 30 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |