Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] became " in BNC.
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| 1 | An amazing difference occurred ; the guitar suddenly became cleaner , clearer when played acoustically and through an amp , plus I still had full use of the tremolo unit . |
| 2 | The reason for the change soon became apparent . |
| 3 | The struggle now became more equal , for the churned , blood-stained mud affected both sides ; and both were short of food and ammunition , since their supply lines had been largely demolished by rival artillery fire . |
| 4 | The inside of the dug-out soon became familiar . |
| 5 | The Archbishop then became a popular hero for defying the King in this sordid affair , and those , including Andrewes , who had obliged Lady Essex in the divorce were discredited . |
| 6 | The kitchen then became a hive of industry , with the fat being cut up and rendered for lard , kept in a big earthenware pot . |
| 7 | The pressure on local councils to obtain building land to cope with housing demand , and the force of demographic forecasts which by the end of the 1950s were being revised upwards , resulted in a series of dog-fights between the large urban authorities and the shire counties , in which the Ministry inevitably became involved . |
| 8 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 9 | When the big night finally arrived , New York 's all-powerful theatre critics raved about the acting performances , but the play soon became , literally , a pain in the neck for its star . |
| 10 | The term then became a nonsense . |
| 11 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 12 | With the removal of legal barriers to entry , the industry quickly became more competitive . |
| 13 | The enemy soon became aware of the importance of the work at Bawdsey and our intelligence got wind of plans for a massive attempt to demolish the research station . |
| 14 | The weight then became 11T — 7C — 0Q . |
| 15 | The force also became more ethnically representative of the population . |
| 16 | Under H. Llewellyn Smith the department also became an important source of investigation of the numbers and condition of the unemployed . |
| 17 | Because Granby House was a listed building , the contractor eventually became exempt from this tax , but as he could not reclaim any VAT he had already paid to suppliers , he had to pass most of it on to the developer . |
| 18 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 19 | Ross Aldridge , the ‘ newcomer ’ policeman , must have been pretty well-briefed by his predecessor , because he restricted himself to friendly off-the-record warnings when the practice occasionally became too obvious . |
| 20 | The mill later became known as Garden Mill . |
| 21 | During the eighteenth century the sport increasingly became a recreation of the working classes . |
| 22 | The peasantry never became resigned to their condition . |
| 23 | Imaged in such terms , the sodomite indeed became the supreme instance of the demonized other . |
| 24 | Yes , removing the work from the machine soon became an acquired skill . |
| 25 | The dollar also became a principal source of liquidity for private transactions ( e.g. oil payments ) because of the dollar 's crucial position in the international monetary system , which made it a safe and acceptable medium of exchange . |
| 26 | The museum quickly became unable to house the constant influx of new objects , while the surroundings have become unable to cope with problems such as coach parking posed by the enormous numbers of visitors . |
| 27 | The Committee soon became the Central ( Unemployed ) Body ( CUB ) , with one of its functions being to ‘ establish , take over , and assist Labour Exchanges or Employment Registers and collect information ’ . |
| 28 | A one-way system meant that out of season hold-ups were rare , but in the peak summer months when the holidaymakers poured in by the dozens in their hire cars the village often became jammed . |
| 29 | Margaret gasped at the way the child suddenly became thin and feverish-looking under the woman 's gaze . |
| 30 | Although designed as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the party 's foundation , the conference immediately became embroiled in a bitter struggle over the election of the ALP president , a largely ceremonial position . |