Example sentences of "became [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 2 | Restricted finances allowed only one appointment , that of Coleman , who became sole Professor at the age of 28 . |
| 3 | His third son , Theodore , eventually became technical head of London Transport ; Ernest , the second son , trained to become an art teacher but spent most of his life in industrial design and advertising ; the poet , too , possessed strong , capable , craftsman 's hands and the poet 's daughter , Myfanwy , still treasures many examples of her father 's skill as a carpenter and metal worker . |
| 4 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 5 | Murphy began his career as an apprentice with Vincent O'Brien 's younger brother Phonsie before he became stable jockey for top Irish trainer Paddy Mullins . |
| 6 | One of the Baptist J. H. Shakespeare 's sons became private secretary to Lloyd George and an MP . |
| 7 | After a short period as a private tutor , he became private secretary to the Liberal industrialist MP , Sir John Brunner [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | In 1947 he became private secretary to Hector McNeil [ q.v. ] , minister of state at the Foreign Office , and despite his drunkenness and unreliable behaviour he not only survived but was promoted . |
| 9 | After riding more than 100 winners , Murphy became private trainer for the Durkan family in Dublin — sending out Anaglogs Daughter to win at the Cheltenham Festival in l980 . |
| 10 | Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1874 , he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit , and then in June 1880 became political secretary to Sir Charles Dilke [ q.v. ] , his father being so disappointed at his abandoning law that he was disinherited in favour of a younger brother . |
| 11 | The religious intolerance of the Reformation became Political intolerance in the Cold War — a hate of each other 's ideology . |
| 12 | An annual further education programme was one of the things which became possible thanks to the availability of full-time professional staff . |
| 13 | The ages at which the mothers in this book became pregnant range from thirteen to eighteen , the majority between the ages of fourteen and seventeen . |
| 14 | The percentage of women who became pregnant fell with increasing waist-hip ratio from 63% to 32% . |
| 15 | After occupying junior ministerial office from his first year in Parliament , he became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1955 . |
| 16 | The actual station buildings at the centre of these new railway communities became administrative centres of some importance and this was reflected in their architecture . |
| 17 | For example , in the early agricultural villages , some individuals became full-time producers of pottery , clothing and agricultural implements . |
| 18 | Political parties provided the labels with which electors could identify , and elections became gladiatorial contests between parties rather than between individual candidates . |
| 19 | Who was the Guardian 's Welsh correspondent before she became Labour MP for Cynon Valley ? |
| 20 | In November C died ; Dansey returned to London , and became assistant chief to his friend ( Sir ) Stewart Menzies [ q.v. ] , the new C. He was in charge of all active espionage till 1945 . |
| 21 | Three years later he returned to Manchester New College , and in 1888 he became assistant minister to Philip Wicksteed in Little Portland Street , London . |
| 22 | A. C. Ingram became Assistant Secretary to the three tramway companies in 1922 . |
| 23 | Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review . |
| 24 | In 1946 he was promoted to senior principal scientific officer and became assistant director of the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment , subsequently becoming director . |
| 25 | After a year at training college to qualify as a teacher , he had two years at a comprehensive school in St Neots , Hunts. , but he wanted to achieve much more as a music teacher and did so when he became assistant director at Sevenoaks . |
| 26 | Bill became assistant trainer to his father Jack in 1964 , who that year trained Indiana to win the St Leger and was runner-up in the Derby . |
| 27 | Tom Parker left to manage Norwich , and in later years became assistant manager of his original club , Southampton . |
| 28 | At the end of his pupillage in 1872 he was sent to the United States to study developments in railways and steel-making , and on his return became assistant manager of the steelworks at Crewe . |
| 29 | Henceforth they went their different ways and gradually became friendly rivals in their respective spheres of activity on behalf of deaf people . |
| 30 | Kim Young Sam , the leader of the RDP , became executive chairman of the DLP 's three-member leadership council , which also included chairmen Kim Jong Pil , former leader of the NDRP , and Park Tae Joon , former vice-chairman of the DJP . |