Example sentences of "[verb] become the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND 'S 1973–74 Test series in West Indies had many things to savour : Sobers became the first man to score 8000 Test runs . |
| 2 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 3 | NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS . |
| 4 | Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 5 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 6 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 7 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 8 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 9 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 10 | From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy . |
| 11 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 12 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 13 | Lady Martin Fitzalan-Howard of Brockfield Hall , Warthill , near York , has become the first woman to be appointed High Steward of Selby Abbey since it was founded in 1069 . |
| 14 | Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch . |
| 15 | The Pacific has become the twentieth century 's fountain of youth . ’ |
| 16 | They coincide with news that Gosforth First School in Newcastle has become the second school in the country to ask parents to pay £30 each to cover a £9,000 shortfall in the budget . |
| 17 | Waltham Forest health authority , which includes Mr Norman Tebbit 's Chingford constituency , in Essex , has become the second health authority to call for an end to the dispute by either negotiation or arbitration . |
| 18 | ‘ Evil ’ has become the last refuge of the latter 's apologists and scoundrels , like the education minister , John Patten . |
| 19 | Paul has an enviable record in both his sales and sales training performance , and he is endeavouring to become the fourth Fellow of the Professional Sales Guild . |
| 20 | But he wants to become the first man to do it all the way across . |
| 21 | Couples wants to become the third golfer behind Jack Nicklaus and Faldo to successfuly defend the Masters but his top priority is the Open Championship at Royal St Georges . |
| 22 | Yamaichi is expected to become the 20th market-maker this summer ; it has recruited two of S.G. Warburg 's best analysts . |
| 23 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 24 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 25 | LA now plans to become the first conurbation in the world to grapple comprehensively with the most pressing international problem of the next century : how to remain prosperous without choking to death . |
| 26 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 27 | Only Fontwell survived but the course must pass a 7.30am inspection if it is to avoid becoming the 27th casualty of the season . |
| 28 | Although the two main explanations of Labour 's growth will remain irreconcilables , the fact remains that the Labour Party did emerge to become the second party in the political system by 1922 , and a party of government by 1924 . |
| 29 | We are delighted to report that Lady More has agreed to become the first president of the Society and has given us a most generous donation in memory of her husband . |
| 30 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |