Example sentences of "[pers pn] become the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 2 | If Shadows and would-be Shadows started behaving like members of a government , there 'd be a greater chance of them becoming the real thing . |
| 3 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 4 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 5 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 6 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 7 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 8 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 9 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 10 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 11 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 12 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 13 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 14 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 15 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 16 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 17 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 18 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 19 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 20 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 21 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 22 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 23 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 24 | A Left-winger and a staunch campaigner against nuclear weapons , she became the first woman chairman of the Tribune Group . |
| 25 | This was given by Mrs Jean Mellonie , Jean Farrow as she was in 1939 when , aged nineteen and at her third attempt , she became the first woman ever to win the race and in record time despite rain and hail . |
| 26 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 27 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 28 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 29 | Mrs Elliott broke new ground when she became the first woman solicitor in the firm about 15 years ago . |
| 30 | And in some way or another , she became the actual owner of the house . ’ |