Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] become the [adj] " 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 | Would she herself end up like that , if she achieved her ambition of becoming the managing editor of a magazine ? |
| 3 | In an announcement published on 28 August 1991 , the PT expressed the intention of becoming the political organisation of the trade unions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 6 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 7 | He also wrote himself into the history books by becoming the first player to compile three total clearances in a match . |
| 8 | Now Donna McKemsley hopes to get into the record books by becoming the youngest woman to hold a pilot 's licence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | VETERAN bluesman John Lee Hooker has just achieved the honour of becoming the oldest person to have a UK Top 20 hit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | For Vol'sky , interviewed in the press , the whole area was in danger of becoming the Soviet Union 's ‘ home-grown Lebanon ’ . |
| 18 | ENGLAND are planning a tour of South Africa in 1994 as part of their long-term aim of becoming the best rugby side in the world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ This has the making of becoming the biggest bureaucratic complexity since Lord Woolton set up the rationing system , ’ BR chairman Sir Bob Reid wrote after the white paper was published . |
| 23 | Judith Mellor stood , unwittingly , between Antonia and her dreams of becoming the smiling First Lady of Number 10 . |
| 24 | There was sympathy too for Floyd , who at 49 had the chance of becoming the oldest champion and now runner-up for the second time in three years . |
| 25 | Mr Nyers and his reformists now stand a very good chance of becoming the biggest party in the new parliament . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Style mogul Simon Forbes from Antenna made history in October by becoming the first hairdresser to appear on the Wogan show . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | R. Page Arnot , another delegate , held that the Communist Party had every prospect of becoming the new mass working-class party . |
| 30 | Faced with a collapsing economy and the prospect of becoming the major player in a new government next year , the ANC 's national executive committee said it would call for an end to economic sanctions as soon as there was agreement with the government on dates for an all-racial election and for the establishment of an interim government of national unity . |