Example sentences of "become the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PURSUIT OF LOVE shot to 5–1 favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas , on May 2 , with an emphatic two-length victory in yesterday 's European Free Handicap as he became the 200th winner trained by Henry Cecil for Lord Howard de Walden . |
| 2 | But now Diana 's younger brother Charles , who became the ninth Earl following his father 's eventual death earlier this year , has exposed all the ghostly goings-on . |
| 3 | Described on the ballot paper as ‘ Mrs Hugh Dalton ’ , she became the ninth female in the Commons . |
| 4 | Thailand became the 68th country out of the 152 IMF members to comply with Article VIII . |
| 5 | At Sydney in 1988 against New South Wales he became the twenty-second batsman and the first West Indian to score a century of centuries . |
| 6 | In 1907 , Oklahoma became the 46th state of the Union . |
| 7 | Croatia on July 8 became the 137th member of the International Maritime Organization . |
| 8 | The 46th Regiment of Foot ( which became The 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry ) while engaged in the American War of Independence in 1777 , defeated an American force at Brandywine . |
| 9 | The former title-holder , Jansher Khan , also from Pakistan , plays Bryan Beeson , who became the second Briton to reach the last eight by overcoming Jason Nicolle , 15-7 , 15-13 , 15-6 in a tussle of English giant-killers . |
| 10 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 11 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 12 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 13 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 14 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 15 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 16 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 17 | The consultant psychogeriatrician in the London Borough of Newham was one of those approached , and as he responded most quickly and positively , Newham became the second area in which the project was to be set up . |
| 18 | Looking unusually demure , Jennie Walker who became the second Mrs Tiller |
| 19 | Sampson became the second ( Marsden was the first ) Yorkshire player to represent the Players against the Gentlemen when he played in the Lord 's fixture of 1841 . |
| 20 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 21 | SOUTH AFRICAN captain Kepler Wessels became the second cricketer to be dismissed by a TV replay yesterday , adjudged run-out against India on the fourth day of the second Test in Johannesburg . |
| 22 | The early 1980s was a time of immense fertility for blacks in sport : as well as their presence in athletics , boxing and soccer , Desmond Douglas established himself as the top table tennis player in the UK , ; Eugene Codrington consolidated his captaincy of the British karate team ( composed mainly of other blacks ) and Roland Butcher became the second black player to play for an MCC touring side ( the first being Basil D'Oliviera of South Africa ) . |
| 23 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 24 | Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he dismissed Mark Taylor at Perth |
| 25 | KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series . |
| 26 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 27 | Redditch ( 1964 ) , a flourishing old town in its own right , became the second and last New Town for the Midlands . |
| 28 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 29 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 30 | Now I became the second edition . |