Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 2 | The third defendant became the managing director of C.M.C. at or soon after its incorporation . |
| 3 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 4 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 5 | A MAN murdered on a bus last night became the 3,000th person to die in 23 years of Ulster violence . |
| 6 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 7 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 8 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |
| 9 | He is understood to be siding with ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey in backing the England bid , knowing he is a leading candidate to next summer become the first non-English chairman of world cricket 's governing body . |