Example sentences of "[adj] became [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 2 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 3 | The Russians were thrown back ; and although they retired in reasonably good order , some became trapped with their backs to Bossau Lake , in which a number drowned . |
| 4 | Some became known as theropods , or beast-footed , because they walked in an upright ( or mammalian ) stance , usually on just two feet . |
| 5 | This became extended through the process of emulation , by which lower groups in the hierarchy sought to copy the higher groups , a strategy so fundamental that Veblen believed it to be the foundation for the concept of private property ( 1970 : 33–40 ) . |
| 6 | This became pronounced in 1949 when the College secured a long lease on two houses , 21 and 23 Cromwell Road , into one of which they moved the Senior and Junior Common Rooms , formerly housed in a hut in Queensgate . |
| 7 | This became Revel In Your Time ( F7c ) . |
| 8 | This became known as the No 2 site . |
| 9 | This became known as the retail price index ( RPI ) plus K factor , where K varied for different water authorities between 3 per cent and 7 per cent . |
| 10 | Once a year you would have been given a Sunday off to visit your own family ; this became known as Mothering Sunday . |
| 11 | This became known as Say 's Law , named after the French economist Jean Baptiste Say ( 1767–1832 ) . |
| 12 | This became enshrined in popular memory as the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in which all the components of the British malaise emerged in heightened colours . |
| 13 | The increasing switch to populist methods , and the threats to public order and the political anti-semitism with which this became associated in the public mind , meant that Mosley 's movement went increasingly beyond the pale . |
| 14 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 15 | These became known as the Bach bowel nosodes . |
| 16 | Gold watches , caviar , champagne and beautiful women — all these became associated with Zahedis munificence . |
| 17 | Increasingly , these became allied to large firms which , apart from their main business , were becoming , by virtue of their size , mini capital markets . |
| 18 | He was educated at schools in Rochester and privately at home , and then at the age of sixteen became apprenticed to his uncle , a chemist and druggist in Bristol . |
| 19 | No wonder that after the intense psychological preparation for the big move which never came , many became disillusioned with hachshara and left . |
| 20 | And all your hatred of men , all the anger you have used to make your own husband 's life a misery , it all became focused on Alex Household . |
| 21 | Thus glagolitic became known as a Croatian script , although its origins were in Macedonia . |
| 22 | ( It first became known to the wider world when , five years after Fermat 's death , his son published his notes . ) |
| 23 | The art of Benin first became known to the West in 1897 when a British military expedition confiscated thousands of works of art from the royal palace and exiled the king , Ovonrramwen . |
| 24 | He first became known in the West Riding as a member of the Euston Road School . |
| 25 | It was while travelling around the world for the UN that she first became impressed with the simple forms of cosmetics made from natural ingredients used by remote communities . |
| 26 | This is , of course , no new process : rural depopulation first became identified as a social problem in the middle of the last century . |
| 27 | It was during the early 30s and on one of my annual visits to eastern Canada that I first became acquainted with that noted Canadian humorist , Dr.Stephen Leacock . |
| 28 | The company , when Mr. O'Brien first became associated with it , had banked at the Watford branch of Barclays Bank . |
| 29 | Hudson ( 1984,1987 ) has catalogued how the reforming penal language of the 1960s became replaced with that of justice and punishment during the 1970s . |