Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 2 | Would she herself end up like that , if she achieved her ambition of becoming the managing editor of a magazine ? |
| 3 | In an announcement published on 28 August 1991 , the PT expressed the intention of becoming the political organisation of the trade unions . |
| 4 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 5 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 6 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 7 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 8 | He also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to compile three total clearances in a match . |
| 9 | Now Donna McKemsley hopes to get into the record books by becoming the youngest woman to hold a pilot 's licence . |
| 10 | Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season . |
| 11 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 12 | VETERAN bluesman John Lee Hooker has just achieved the honour of becoming the oldest person to have a UK Top 20 hit . |
| 13 | For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford . |
| 14 | She has the honour of becoming the Embsay Steam Railway 's first tender engine to operate on the branch line since BR departed and the Trust was formed in 1967 . |
| 15 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |
| 17 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 18 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 19 | As the Conservative party is on the point of becoming the third party in a four-party country at the by-election later this week , is it not time that the Government stopped giving Scotland what it does not want — nuclear waste and nuclear energy — and instead gave Scotland what it wants , which is direct encouragement for renewable energies in a country which the Minister himself described as rich in potential for such developments ? |
| 20 | Until we had made love again , that first occasion at the villa was in danger of becoming the exception which proved the rule . |
| 21 | Is he in danger of becoming the hardcore guru ? |
| 22 | The great game of cricket is now in danger of becoming the sport in which everyone is frightened of telling the truth . |
| 23 | For Vol'sky , interviewed in the press , the whole area was in danger of becoming the Soviet Union 's ‘ home-grown Lebanon ’ . |
| 24 | Primo de Rivera was still alive and there could be little doubt that he would be opposed to the idea , for , even before the rising , he had warned against the danger of becoming the puppets of the military . |
| 25 | But the Jockey Club 's director of public affairs , David Pipe , said : ‘ The jockeys fail to realise that in this day and age , public opinion is fairly powerful and they are in danger of becoming the subject of private cruelty prosecutions if they are deemed to have broken our rules . |
| 26 | ENGLAND are planning a tour of South Africa in 1994 as part of their long-term aim of becoming the best rugby side in the world . |
| 27 | EDINBURGH 's Queen Margaret College moved closer to its aim of becoming the city 's fourth university yesterday , as it won the right to run post-graduate courses , writes Douglas Fraser . |
| 28 | But , though independent , these objects of his attention coalesced , inevitably , in the act of painting when all the discrete , scattered moments , followed up , caught on the wing , suspended or elusive , were in process of becoming the picture on the easel . |
| 29 | The bank has recently lifted the original cap on how much the former Soviet Union can borrow , but faces pressure to do more to help the republics , which with one exception , are in the process of becoming the bank 's newest members . |
| 30 | Sony will shortly upgrade this to the Extended Architecture standard enabling CD-ROM to beat portable CD-I to becoming the first multimedia handheld units to reach the commercial market . |