Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 22 Liechtenstein became the seventh member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) joining Austria , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland ; hitherto Liechtenstein had had associate status through its customs union with Switzerland , but no vote . |
| 2 | His Democratic opponent , Doug Wilder , hoping on 7 November to become the first black governor of a US state , has been forcing him to back-pedal since . |
| 3 | In February 1991 Malaysia became the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in Ho Chi Minh City , the country 's commercial capital . |
| 4 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 5 | In 1874 Elliot became the first of the coal industry 's business leaders to receive a baronetcy . |
| 6 | United States Secretary of State James Baker paid a visit ( curtailed by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait which began the Gulf crisis ) to Mongolia in August 1990 [ see p. 37656 ] , and in January 1991 Ochirbat became the first Mongolian head of state to visit the USA [ see p. 37960 ] . |
| 7 | On Nov. 26 Poland became the third eastern European country after Hungary and Czechoslovakia [ see p. 38503 ] , to join the Council of Europe . |
| 8 | In 1920 Swire became the director in charge of the company 's overseas staff , and thereafter in a series of long , energetic and often dangerous tours — the civil war in China was at its height — he regularly explored every nook and cranny of the company 's Far Eastern empire . |
| 9 | Germany had become a republic at the end of the Great War , and in 1925 Hindenberg became the President of that republic . |
| 10 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 11 | In 1922 Parma became the last city in Italy to give in to Mussolini , and then only after violent fighting Oltre Torrente . |
| 12 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |
| 13 | And the revered , sacred feline of ancient Egypt became the wicked , sorcerer 's cat of medieval Europe . |
| 14 | Whether then Berlin became the national capital would be a matter for the German people to decide . |
| 15 | On Nov. 6 Hungary became the first east European country to join the Council of Europe . |
| 16 | On May 25 Roh became the first South Korean leader ever to address the Diet , the Japanese legislature . |
| 17 | On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect . |
| 18 | On Jan. 16 Hungary became the first country to establish bilateral diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republic of Moldova . |
| 19 | In 1961 Pillai became the first Indian chairman of GKW ( the Indian subsidiary of GKN ) . |
| 20 | On Nov. 27 Italy became the sixth European Community member country to sign the Schengen Agreement . |
| 21 | On Aug. 13 Belgium became the fourth EC country to house Cuban citizens in its Embassy ( Italy and Switzerland having temporarily sheltered seven ) . |
| 22 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 23 | In 1926 China became the first country in the Far East to permit kissing to be shown on its cinema screens . |
| 24 | Strange deals — how has Marxist Mozambique become the blue-eyed child of the IMF and the World Bank ? |
| 25 | In 1982 Barclays became the first bank to re-open its doors on Saturday mornings , and the other high street banks soon followed suit . |
| 26 | In March 1989 Hungary became the first East European state to accede to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees ( under which states agreed not to expel refugees or return them to their homeland if they would face persecution there ) . |
| 27 | In 1959 Macmillan became the first Western head of state to visit Moscow in time of peace , sporting a white fur hat ( a psychological mistake , since white was only worn by Finns ) . |
| 28 | From the later months of 1316 Damory became the leading member of a group of royal favourites , two of whom , Hugh Despenser the younger [ q.v. ] |
| 29 | Never one to rest of the chic laurels he had begun to gather , in the mid-Seventies Lagerfeld became the first ready-to-wear designer to have his own fragrance . |