Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] became 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 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , a West Midlands restaurant became the seventh establishment to be honoured with the award . |
| 5 | In Massachusetts , William Weld became the first Republican governor in the state for 20 years when he defeated John Silber , the Democrat who was aspiring to succeed Michael Dukakis . |
| 6 | Last year one Middlesex student became the first to submit a postgraduate thesis as a video cassette tape . |
| 7 | With those words from the Leader of the House the Tory MP for Northampton South became the second most important person in the House of Commons behind new Speaker Betty Boothroyd . |
| 8 | With those words from the Leader of the House the Tory MP for Northampton South became the second most important person in the House of Commons behind new Speaker Betty Boothroyd . |