Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 2 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 3 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mrs Elliott broke new ground when she became the first woman solicitor in the firm about 15 years ago . |
| 6 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 7 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 8 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 9 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 10 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 11 | The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham-Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . |
| 12 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |