Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To John Kemp Seraphina becomes the beloved ideal as well as the victim of persecution whom he vows to rescue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Closer to home , BARNEY from NEW ORDER and long-time girlfriend SARAH became the proud parents of a very healthy baby boy called Dylan . |
| 4 | Holland 's Richard Krajicek became the fourth man through to the big money stage when he beat Spain 's Emilio Sanchez 6-3 , 6-2 . |
| 5 | George Orwell put these characteristics to imaginative use in his book Animal Farm , in which top pig Napoleon became the Stalin of the muckyard . |
| 6 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |
| 7 | So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city . |
| 8 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 9 | After William III 's death in 1702 and Anne 's succession Sophia became the immediate heir to the throne . |
| 10 | SCOTT GIBBS became the British Lions ' latest casualty in the jinxed centre positions during a messy 34–16 victory over Southland today . |
| 11 | In Paris , first the Gare de l'Est and later the Gare d'Orsay became the standard station-forms for their respective generations , models of perfection which others strove to emulate . |
| 12 | EDINBURGH star Richard Corsie became the third Scot to reach the quarter-finals of the £140,000 Midland Bank world indoor championships yesterday , following in the wake of Graham Robertson and Jimmy McCann . |
| 13 | In 1952 A. G. MacGregor became the Assistant Director and Knox was promoted to District Geologist . |
| 14 | RICHARD Wood became the first marketing and development officer for Durham Wildlife Trust last August . |
| 15 | Ellen Schneider-Lenne became the first woman on the board of Morgan Grenfell in its 151-year history , thanks to its takeover by Deutsche Bank . |
| 16 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
| 17 | ON THIS DAY : In 1154 , Nicolas Breakspear became the only English Pope , as Adrian IV . |
| 18 | SIMON PARKE became the youngest male player to represent England when at the age of 17 years and two months he helped his country to a second 3-0 victory in the World Team Championships here yesterday , this time against the hosts . |
| 19 | A last chance of compromise seemed possible when the veteran Léon Blum became the head of government in December : his pre-war record towards Vietnam had been good . |
| 20 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 21 | In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran . |
| 22 | The first game was notable in that , apart from a demanding first win , Sebastian Sloane became the first Rugby schoolboy to score a five point try . |
| 23 | The 36-year-old Tynesider stepped up to the manager 's chair after Frank Gray became the third North-East football boss to lose his job since Christmas . |
| 24 | FRANK Gray became the third North-East managerial casualty since Christmas when he was sacked by Darlington yesterday . |
| 25 | Silberzahn , a 54-year-old civil servant , replaced Gen. François Mermet to become the sixth head of the agency in seven years . |
| 26 | On Oct. 8 , 1989 , Roberto Salazar Manrique replaced the interim Justice Minister , Carlos Lemos Simmons , who became the new Interior Minister following the resignation of Orlando Vásquez Velásquez ; Enrique Danies became the new Communications Minister . |
| 27 | North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field . |
| 28 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When this exemption ended in July China became the sole importer , and in September 1990 the Chinese government announced that it would join the ban from January 1991 . |