Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of World War II , GCHQ , as GCCS had become , moved from its wartime headquarters at Bletchley Park , north of London , to Cheltenham , where it swiftly sprawled over two large sites — Oakley and Benhall . |
| 2 | Life for Ginger had become a roller-coaster but she was a survivor . |
| 3 | The House of Windsor has become highly adept at the business of its own survival . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The press of carriages represented an increasing desire of those with money to display it rather than hoard it , determined to keep pace with the fashion : ‘ The dreary bourgeois of Balzac have become vain . |
| 6 | The recent terminology of Soviet and DRA leaders confirms the impression that some form of neutralisation of Afghanistan has become more acceptable to Moscow . |
| 7 | But I see no evidence of Scotland having become a classless society ! |
| 8 | Since that time the Halifax Building Society and the Bank of Scotland have become Appointed Representatives and in future will sell only Standard Life 's products through their branches . |
| 9 | The Highlands and Islands of Scotland have become an ideal testing ground for this form of work , some of it extremely high-level . |
| 10 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |
| 11 | Whilst the Church of England has become less rigid in its liturgy , some Free Churches have come to recognise the value of formal worship patterns . |
| 12 | In recent years the Bank of England has become more profitable as a result of high interest rates and good yields on the investments that these non-interest bearing deposits are placed in . |
| 13 | For a country with meagre mineral resources , Ireland was to provide rich pickings : ‘ By 1978 the Republic of Ireland had become the world 's fifth largest zinc producer , its third largest barytes producer and a significant producer of lead and silver ’ . |
| 14 | Talk of Stalin had become taboo : it was the period of de-Stalinisation . |
| 15 | Since 1960 very precise tests of GR have become possible thanks to advances in technology . |
| 16 | March 1953 , by which time United Soviet States of Russia had become isolated from the western world , refusing to accept Marshall Aid and hiding behind the ‘ Iron Curtain ’ which they had created . |
| 17 | The family was still of some standing but the merchant firm of Höchstetter had become bankrupt in 1530 with the failure of a heavily financed speculation in mercury and the end of a dream of world monopoly in that substance . |
| 18 | The role of the Queen is vastly different from that assumed for the monarch under the Tudors ; the hereditary element in the House of Lords has plummeted in importance in the deliberations of the House over the last two and a half decades ; and the House of Commons has become , although in relatively recent times , with the extension of the franchise , a popular assembly . |
| 19 | The crowded , bustling scenes of Bosch have become an isolated , inward-looking face , an entire body suspended in space . |
| 20 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By the 1960s the State of Israel had become more secure . |
| 23 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 24 | By the end of the 14th century the Warren family of Poynton had become Lords of the Manor , a title which they were to retain until the death of Sir George Warren in 1801 . |
| 25 | He showed that precipitation in parts of Europe had become increasingly acidic over this period . |
| 26 | The Church had ceased to be monolithic ; the social structure of Europe had become more fluid . |
| 27 | The nations of Europe had become too proud , too self-aware to tolerate that , and gradually , with this kind of behaviour , a collective anti-German consciousness arose I think which , strangely , even today unites Russians , Poles , with people in the west of Europe and America . |
| 28 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |
| 29 | With the developments in East Germany and the prospect of German re-unification , the future organisation of Europe has become a live issue . |
| 30 | Now that the Soviet Union no longer exists , the whole of Europe has become unstable . |