Example sentences of "[noun prp] become the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |
| 2 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 3 | On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect . |
| 4 | A simulated dockside environment presents life in the days of Sail and Steam in the Docks as Cardiff became the greatest coal-exporting port in the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ON THIS DAY : In 1154 , Nicolas Breakspear became the only English Pope , as Adrian IV . |
| 7 | John Vento became the third white to be sentenced in connection with the Bensonhurst attack , having been convicted of unlawful imprisonment and menacing behaviour , on July 3 , and was on Aug. 14 imprisoned for between 2@2/3 and 8 years . |
| 8 | In June 1988 , James Hansen became the first prominent atmospheric scientist to tell governments that the greenhouse effect had been confirmed ‘ with about 99 per cent confidence ’ ( Hansen et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , Taiwan became the largest foreign investor in Malaysia during 1988 , in terms of the annual flows of investment . |
| 10 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 11 | In 1961 Pillai became the first Indian chairman of GKW ( the Indian subsidiary of GKN ) . |
| 12 | Following the opening of the Deviation in 1978 , the rebuilding of the old line between Tan y Grisiau and Blaenau became the next major goal for the Railway . |
| 13 | SIMON PARKE became the youngest male player to represent England when at the age of 17 years and two months he helped his country to a second 3-0 victory in the World Team Championships here yesterday , this time against the hosts . |
| 14 | The establishment of diplomatic relations between Singapore and China in October 1990 [ see p. 37780 ] meant that Brunei became the sole ASEAN member without formal diplomatic ties with China . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In April 1991 a new four-party centre-right coalition was sworn in following the March general election when the KESK became the largest single parliamentary party [ see pp. 38112 ; 38158 ] . |
| 17 | Sumner became the leading English exponent of the technique of sgraffito , a method of decorating walls by incising designs on coloured plaster ; he decorated eleven churches and several private houses in this way . |
| 18 | During the talks Mubarak became the first Arab leader to accept the US suggestion that the Arab countries should drop their economic boycott of Israel in return for an Israeli freeze on its settlement activities . |
| 19 | Microsoft 's partnership with IBM has made Bill Gates , Microsoft 's founder , a billionaire and helped IBM become the biggest personal-computer maker in the world . |
| 20 | GORAN Ivanisevic became the latest big-name casualty of the US Open at Flushing Meadow when the 11th seeded Croatian lost to Spaniard Carlos Costa . |
| 21 | GORAN Ivanisevic became the latest big-name casualty of the US Open at Flushing Meadow when the 11th seeded Croatian lost to Spaniard Carlos Costa . |
| 22 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |
| 23 | His Democratic opponent , Doug Wilder , hoping on 7 November to become the first black governor of a US state , has been forcing him to back-pedal since . |
| 24 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 25 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 26 | Masur became the first Australian to reach the quarter-finals here since 1988 in a match that featured one of the greatest comebacks in US Open history . |
| 27 | With domestic competition effectively prohibited , the BBC became the main national instrument of broadcasting in Britain . |
| 28 | I 'm delighted to welcome er the various initiatives that result from partnerships between industry and government er and in particular the investors in people which encourages training and skilling er on a life long basis and I have pleasure in confirming that that is not confined to the private sector and that today ACAS became the first civil service er body to receive the full award of Investors in People . |
| 29 | Democrat Carol Moseley from Illinios became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate . |
| 30 | Air Chief Marshal Voranart Apichari became the new Supreme Commander . |