Example sentences of "[noun] became the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 2 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 3 | He went first thing next morning , though , and the innings closed on 270 as Holding became the fourth West Indian to take 200 Test wickets . |
| 4 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 5 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Portugal became the poorest EC member with almost a quarter of its people living off the land . |
| 8 | In 1934 Eric Dillon became the 19th Viscount Dillon . |
| 9 | An arrangement was signed with the Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Motel Association by which the HCIMA became the sole UK distributor of the EI 's comprehensive range of management development resourses . |
| 10 | En route to Vancouver to start a series of Alaska cruises , Crown Princess became the third Princess Cruises ship to hold the record , paying USS 141,344.97 . |
| 11 | Barry Abrook became the first UK skater to spin a 540 and make it . |
| 12 | That came after Liverpool 's frustration bubbled to the surface when Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to receive a red card in four European Cup Winners Cup matches this season . |
| 13 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 14 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 15 | On Aug. 13 Belgium became the fourth EC country to house Cuban citizens in its Embassy ( Italy and Switzerland having temporarily sheltered seven ) . |
| 16 | Czechoslovakian President Havel became the first East European head of state to visit Israel , in April 1990 . |
| 17 | In 1893 , Drewy Stoddart became the first Middlesex batsman to score a century in each innings of a county match — carrying his bat for 195 not out ( out of 327 ) and 124 against Nottinghamshire at Lord 's . |
| 18 | On May 25 Roh became the first South Korean leader ever to address the Diet , the Japanese legislature . |
| 19 | Once again , the backbone of the innings came from Lamb and Botham , and just before the close on the first day Lamb became the first England batsman since Barrington in 1960 to score centuries in consecutive Test innings against West Indies . |
| 20 | N.A. Mallender became the first England bowler to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut since N.G.B. Cook ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Sir Patrick Mayhew became the new Northern Ireland Secretary . |