Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] becoming the [num ord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to compile three total clearances in a match . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Middlesboro 1 , Watford 2 WATFORD enhanced their impressive away record by becoming the first team to win at Middlesbrough 's Ayresome Park in the League this season , writes Ian Whittell . |
| 13 | The South Wales Cricket Association XI came within a raindrop of becoming the first British team to meet South Africa during their tour of Australia and New Zealand . |
| 14 | De Gaulle 's priorities on becoming the Fourth Republic 's last prime minister had a familiar ring to anybody who remembered his actions in the 1940s . |
| 15 | Style mogul Simon Forbes from Antenna made history in October by becoming the first hairdresser to appear on the Wogan show . |
| 16 | Couples 's task was made all the easier by a sad collapse of Craig Parry , who had led after three rounds but flinched , it seemed , from the prospect of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters . |
| 17 | Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 18 | Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 19 | The 23-year-old Dubliner is a proud man through becoming the first player from South of the Border to become Irish professional snooker . |
| 20 | The presumption of innocence is also concerned with victims ' rights : it is there to prevent an innocent suspect from becoming the second victim of a crime . |
| 21 | NEWS of Rebecca Stephens ' success in becoming the first British woman to reach the summit of Everest was flashed around the world with the help of an Essex-based company from the Marconi group . |
| 22 | Of course , the cloth-eared bimbo sometimes graduates into becoming the Second Mrs/Mr Tanqueray and becomes the person about whom your children start saying , ‘ Sophie makes these wicked cakes — they just melt in your mouth and she does n't mind what time we go to bed and she and daddy are always giggling and cuddling up and when can we go there again ? ’ |
| 23 | So I 'm impressed by Marie Radcliffe 's wonderful effort in becoming the first woman to win the Parachute Regiment 's red beret . |
| 24 | Last summer , he and fellow Teesside Polytechnic student Paul Kuiken , 19 , were prevented by police from becoming the first to canoe over the 72-ft High Force waterfall in Teesdale because of fears they would be killed . |
| 25 | BY ANY standards , the success of the film Hedd Wyn in becoming the first Welsh language film to be nominated for the prestigious Royal Television Society award was a significant breakthrough for the burgeoning industry . |
| 26 | The development of its taste for small water creatures as a main ingredient in its omnivorous diet may be similar to the trend that occurred in our own ancient ancestors during the intermediate stage on the way to becoming the first hunting primates . |
| 27 | With a major breakthrough in America beckoning , they look well on the way to becoming the first stadium techno band . |
| 28 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 29 | Davies the rugby player captained Cambridge to a 17–11 victory over Oxford in his fourth Varsity match last December and is almost certainly creating history by becoming the first to earn a rugby-soccer double Blue in the same season . |
| 30 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S David Frost yesterday made history by becoming the first golfer to win the Million Dollar Challenge three times . |