Example sentences of "has become [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 2 | Beck House , in Faverdale , has become a second home to many people in the area with learning difficulties . |
| 3 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 4 | From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy . |
| 5 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 6 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 7 | A CHILD with a rare inherited disease that affects the immune system has become the first in the world to receive an advanced form of gene therapy . |
| 8 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 9 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 10 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 11 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 12 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 13 | NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS . |
| 14 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has become the first non-US company to adopt Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench computer-aided software engineering environment . |
| 15 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 16 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 17 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |
| 18 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 19 | Steve has become the first sales manager in the branch . |
| 20 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 21 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 22 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 23 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 24 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 25 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 26 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 27 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 28 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 29 | One of the region 's police forces has become the first in the country to use mobile cameras in an effort to trap speeding drivers . |
| 30 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |