Example sentences of "became the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aberdeen had , at that point , been slow to regain the composure shown before Eadie 's involvement and this was illustrated when Aitken became the second experienced player to be booked . |
| 6 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Latvia thus became the second ex-Soviet republic ( following Estonia ) to replace the rouble with its own currency . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The second half produced any amount of action , including five goals , three of them to Chorley , before their striker Bernie Taylor had to be stretchered off following a tackle from Kath Townley , who became the second United player to be dismissed . |
| 15 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 16 | In June 1988 , James Hansen became the first prominent atmospheric scientist to tell governments that the greenhouse effect had been confirmed ‘ with about 99 per cent confidence ’ ( Hansen et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 18 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 19 | September 1991 : HCIMA Greece became the first European Chapter to be inaugurated , by Director at a gathering in Athens , attended by 120 senior members of Greece 's hotel and catering and tourism industries . |
| 20 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |
| 21 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 22 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 23 | Leeds United 's winger Albert Johanneson became the first black player to appear at Wembley in the 1965 Cup Final against Liverpool , who won 2–1 after extra time . |
| 24 | Anderson became the first black player to play in a full international game for England in 1979 . |
| 25 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 26 | Ashe , married with a five-year-old daughter , became the first black man to win the men 's title at Wimbledon in the 1975 final against Jimmy Con-nors . |
| 27 | On June 13 Theo Mitchell became the first black politician to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in South Carolina when he secured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination with 59 per cent of the vote ; Mitchell was to face Republican incumbent Carroll Campbell . |
| 28 | In Connecticut Gary Franks became the first black Republican to serve in the House since the Second World War . |
| 29 | Ismail Mahomed became the first black judge in the country 's history when he took his seat in the Supreme Court on Aug. 12 . |
| 30 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |