Example sentences of "becoming [art] [num ord] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 2 | Since becoming the first Scot in 35 years to win the Amateur title at Carnoustie last year , Dundas has known that he would be playing in the US Masters at Augusta and Open Championship at Royal St George 's , and now he has received an invitation to the US Open , to be played at Baltusrol , New Jersey , on 17-20 June . |
| 3 | There were two daughters of the marriage , the elder , Irene , in 1906 becoming the first woman in London to be arrested in the cause of militant feminism . |
| 4 | Doi , 62 , had been elected leader of the SDPJ ( then named the Japan Socialist Party — see below ) in 1986 , thereby becoming the first woman in Japan to head a major political party . |
| 5 | On June 23 it was announced that Qatar had signed a defence pact with the USA , becoming the third state in the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) to do so after Kuwait and Bahrain ; an official said that the agreement ruled out any intervention in Qatar 's internal affairs and was in line with GCC policy . |
| 6 | As the Conservative party is on the point of becoming the third party in a four-party country at the by-election later this week , is it not time that the Government stopped giving Scotland what it does not want — nuclear waste and nuclear energy — and instead gave Scotland what it wants , which is direct encouragement for renewable energies in a country which the Minister himself described as rich in potential for such developments ? |