Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 2 | HEINZ FREI , the world record-holder from Switzerland , is expected to become the fourth foreign winner in five years of the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon tomorrow . |
| 3 | Yamaichi is expected to become the 20th market-maker this summer ; it has recruited two of S.G. Warburg 's best analysts . |
| 4 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 5 | Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , one of the Sparc system manufacturers that plans to build a workstation compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Mbus-based Sparcstation 10 ( UX No 392 ) , is set to become the first customer for Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc RISC chip , a CPU which has garnered no discernible industry support since its launch back in May ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 6 | Island Graphics is set to become the first — and so far the only — application for Solaris-on-Intel , to be announced this week at PC Expo . |
| 7 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 8 | Alistair Campbell ( Wallasey ) is poised to become the first batsman to reach the 500 mark . |
| 9 | JOSE-MARIA CANIZARES is poised to become the fourth Spanish golfer to pass the £1 million European prize winnings mark after a 69 in the wind-buffeted Rome Masters third round at Castelgandolfo . |
| 10 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 11 | The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted . |
| 12 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 13 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |