Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 2 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 3 | Holland 's Richard Krajicek became the fourth man through to the big money stage when he beat Spain 's Emilio Sanchez 6-3 , 6-2 . |
| 4 | In 1911 , Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole . |
| 5 | EDINBURGH star Richard Corsie became the third Scot to reach the quarter-finals of the £140,000 Midland Bank world indoor championships yesterday , following in the wake of Graham Robertson and Jimmy McCann . |
| 6 | RICHARD Wood became the first marketing and development officer for Durham Wildlife Trust last August . |
| 7 | Ellen Schneider-Lenne became the first woman on the board of Morgan Grenfell in its 151-year history , thanks to its takeover by Deutsche Bank . |
| 8 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
| 9 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 10 | In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran . |
| 11 | The first game was notable in that , apart from a demanding first win , Sebastian Sloane became the first Rugby schoolboy to score a five point try . |
| 12 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 13 | The 36-year-old Tynesider stepped up to the manager 's chair after Frank Gray became the third North-East football boss to lose his job since Christmas . |
| 14 | FRANK Gray became the third North-East managerial casualty since Christmas when he was sacked by Darlington yesterday . |
| 15 | Silberzahn , a 54-year-old civil servant , replaced Gen. François Mermet to become the sixth head of the agency in seven years . |
| 16 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 17 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 18 | SOUTH AFRICAN captain Kepler Wessels became the second cricketer to be dismissed by a TV replay yesterday , adjudged run-out against India on the fourth day of the second Test in Johannesburg . |
| 19 | In July Namibia became the fifth member of the Southern African Customs Union ( along with South Africa , Lesotho , Swaziland and Botswana ) . |
| 20 | September 1991 : HCIMA Greece became the first European Chapter to be inaugurated , by Director at a gathering in Athens , attended by 120 senior members of Greece 's hotel and catering and tourism industries . |
| 21 | Erm bookies yesterday slashed odds on Prince William becoming the next king because of an exclusive Sun story , I do n't think . |
| 22 | Stephen Dundas became the first Scot to win The Amateur for 36 years . |
| 23 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 24 | During his visit , Mr Kinnock became the first British political leader to meet Gregor Gysi , the new East German Communist Party leader . |
| 25 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 26 | IAN HUNTER 'S freak injury means Tony and Rory Underwood become the first brothers to play together for England since the war tomorrow . |
| 27 | President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit Czechoslovakia on Oct. 13-20 . |
| 28 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 29 | Czechoslovakian President Havel became the first East European head of state to visit Israel , in April 1990 . |
| 30 | And to add to the Blues ' tale of woe , Glen Keeley became the first player to be sent off on his debut in a Merseyside derby . |