Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 2 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 3 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 4 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 5 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 6 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 7 | Students on the Media course at Stroud College have become the first in the country to get permission to broadcast to the public . |
| 8 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 9 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 10 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 11 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 12 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 13 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 14 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 15 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 16 | In Britain local authority ( council ) housing has become the second largest sector of the housing market , holding considerable social significance in local areas . |
| 17 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 18 | On March 31 it was announced that the Katowice Commercial and Credit Bank had become the first Polish bank to go bankrupt . |
| 19 | AN Edinburgh independent boys ' school has become the first in Britain to plug into the French government 's prestigious new technology learning centre . |
| 20 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 21 | A CHILD with a rare inherited disease that affects the immune system has become the first in the world to receive an advanced form of gene therapy . |
| 22 | It was reported on Aug. 19 that the Swedish bank Forex had become the second foreign bank to buy and sell kroons , following the Lithuanian bank Litimpex 's decision to do so in June . |
| 23 | A ROMANTIC couple have become the first Britons to wed in Disney World , Florida . |
| 24 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 25 | A CHILD murderer set to become the first person to be hanged for 28 years has sparked controversy across America . |