Example sentences of "[adj] became the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 2 | This became the saddest decision of all . |
| 3 | This became the Working Committee of the UGCC , but Nkrumah rapidly discovered that there was little else : there were only two branches , both inactive . |
| 4 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 5 | After his retirement this became the well-known pianoforte manufacturing firm of Collard & Collard . |
| 6 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 7 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 8 | They were imitated by their elders and again , the novel behaviour of the few became the accepted behaviour of the group . |
| 9 | It was Matilda , the only offspring of this marriage , who in 1181–2 became the unwitting cause of what the chronicler of the Limousin , Geoffrey de Vigeois , called " a great calamity for our country " . |
| 10 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 11 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 12 | Hudson , 26 became the first player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa |
| 13 | Between 1897 and 1906 , magistrate courts granted over 87,000 separation and maintenance orders in England and Wales at the rate of some 8,000 separations per year , and these became the working-class norm . |
| 14 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 15 | Georgia on July 31 became the 179th member of the United Nations [ for accessions of other former Soviet states see p. 38842 ] . |
| 16 | He was replaced by Peter Lilley , hitherto Financial Secretary to the Treasury , who at 46 became the youngest member of the Cabinet . |
| 17 | On Saturday , Dave Ward 's Sunrays Cannon clocked 25.38 for the recently introduced 400 metres trip , while in Monday 's open races , Mona Wainright 's Sheffield-based Milebush Groovy became the first greyhound to win over the new 774 metres distance in 51.02 secs . |
| 18 | THIRD DIVISION Maidstone United became the first casualty club of the new season yesterday — and the fear is more could follow . |
| 19 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 20 | Croatia on July 8 became the 137th member of the International Maritime Organization . |
| 21 | On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite . |
| 22 | Four players had especial reason to remember the Oval game : two scored double centuries , one took fourteen wickets and one became the leading Test wicket-keeper . |
| 23 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 24 | Ion Iliescu in particular became the focal point of demonstrators who claimed that his communist past disqualified him from office and that nothing short of a total purge of communists from all positions of responsibility would cleanse society of the effects of 40 years of dictatorship . |
| 25 | No 55015 Tulyar having returned light engined from Edinburgh to York on 2 january 1982 became the last Deltic to be switched off by BR . |
| 26 | Our Aisling , two months in foal to Efisio , romped home by six lengths under top weight in the Millerhill Handicap , while Call Me I 'm Blue became the fifth favourite to oblige in the Tranent Handicap . |
| 27 | Henry VIII became the supreme head of the Church of England and , between 1530 and 1539 , the Roman Catholic monastic foundations in the land were dissolved , the Crown claiming the extensive lands which brought considerable revenue to the King . |
| 28 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |
| 29 | The 1980s became the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade . |
| 30 | In western Europe West Germany in the 1980S became the biggest producer of chips Much of this was captive production for Siemens , IBM and Japanese companies . |