Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 2 | Next year , the younger son of this old man became the first of five Richard Goughs to live at Newton on the Hill , a mile or so from Myddle church . |
| 3 | Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years . |
| 4 | Berkshire 's Lane instantly missed a four-foot winning chance in the play-off and 45-year-old Canizares , after halving from seven feet on the previous green , sank a 20ft birdie winner at the fourth extra hole to become the fourth Spanish winner of the season after Severiano Ballesteros , Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero . |
| 5 | It started its quality improvement process in 1988 and the following year became the first French chemical company to gain ISO 9000 registration . |
| 6 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 7 | National Semiconductor became the first of a stream of US and later Japanese electronics investors to take the bait . |
| 8 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 9 | But Squadron Leader , Bob Illett took time out of his hectic schedule to become the first RAF man to meet the refugees his detachment is helping . |
| 10 | The second day , and some of the third , belonged to Andrew Hudson , who drew strength from the eerie vacuum to become the first to score a century on Test debut for South Africa in 104 years . |
| 11 | They are badly needed : as Green has said , ‘ It would be easy for clinical research to become the first and indeed the greatest casualty of reductions in size in London . ’ |
| 12 | But as nuclear parity becomes the first order of the day and conventional power projection capabilities expand , Soviet departures from Western attitudes in the realm of war become more visible and telling . |
| 13 | The new TI becomes the second largest engineering firm in the UK and one of the biggest in Europe |
| 14 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 15 | In addition he served with great distinction in the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary and , having reached the statutory rule of fifteen years service , ‘ retired ’ from the Royal Infirmary to become the first surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 16 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 17 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 18 | A MAN murdered on a bus last night became the 3,000th person to die in 23 years of Ulster violence . |
| 19 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 20 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |
| 21 | He is understood to be siding with ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey in backing the England bid , knowing he is a leading candidate to next summer become the first non-English chairman of world cricket 's governing body . |