Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] become the [num ord] " 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 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Orton Chirwa qualified in London in 1958 to become the first African barrister in the country . |
| 6 | , Alexander William Charles Oliphant , Baron Murray of Elibank ( 1870–1920 ) , politician and company director , was born in Folkestone 12 April 1870 , the eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray , later tenth Baron Elibank ( peerage of Scotland ) , who in 1911 became the first Viscount Elibank ( UK peerage ) , and his wife Blanche Alice , daughter of Edward John Scott of Southsea , Hampshire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were two daughters of the marriage , the elder , Irene , in 1906 becoming the first woman in London to be arrested in the cause of militant feminism . |
| 9 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 10 | His son George [ q.v. ] was secretary to David Hartley MP and at twenty-eight became the first British resident minister in Washington , USA ( 1791–5 ) , and was later under-secretary for foreign affairs . |