Example sentences of "yesterday became the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 2 | THE tour operators Euro Express yesterday became the second travel firm in less than a week to collapse . |
| 3 | SOUTH Yorkshire yesterday became the fifth health authority to call in the army and police to take over its emergency services . |
| 4 | PLUMPTON yesterday became the 12th meeting of the National Hunt season to be called off after parts of the course were found to be waterlogged . |
| 5 | EQUITY & LAW , The Netherlands ' 60ft yacht skippered by Dirk Nauta , yesterday became the first of the smaller boats and 15th so far to finish the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este in Uruguay . |
| 6 | HOCKEY star Steve Martin yesterday became the first British player sent off in Olympic Games history . |
| 7 | An Ulster pipe band yesterday became the first band in the United Kingdom to win six major competitions in a year . |
| 8 | WALTER Lawrence yesterday became the latest housebuilder to release sharply lower profit figures . |
| 9 | Warrington-based Greenall Whitley yesterday became the latest brewer to complain that the squeeze on spending is starting to hit beer sales . |
| 10 | BUILDING materials group Tarmac yesterday became the latest company to reduce its dividends — from 11¼p to 5½p , with the final of 2½p payable on July 6 . |
| 11 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |