Example sentences of "[verb] become [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Roh Tae Woo became the first South Korean head of state to make an official trip to the Soviet Union when he arrived in Moscow on Dec. 13 at the beginning of a four-day visit . |
| 2 | ENGLAND 'S 1973–74 Test series in West Indies had many things to savour : Sobers became the first man to score 8000 Test runs . |
| 3 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 4 | Beck House , in Faverdale , has become a second home to many people in the area with learning difficulties . |
| 5 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 6 | From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy . |
| 7 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 8 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 9 | A CHILD with a rare inherited disease that affects the immune system has become the first in the world to receive an advanced form of gene therapy . |
| 10 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 11 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 12 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 13 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 14 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 15 | NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS . |
| 16 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has become the first non-US company to adopt Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench computer-aided software engineering environment . |
| 17 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 18 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 19 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |
| 20 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 21 | Steve has become the first sales manager in the branch . |
| 22 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 23 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 24 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 25 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 26 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 27 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 28 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 29 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 30 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |