Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My step lightened , I was full of energetic high spirits , and during the summer term I even became keen on playing tennis , which I would practise with the assiduousness I had formerly devoted to the piano . |
| 2 | The next four cars were more conventional , seating 76 having bogies , and a top-cover which later became standard for double-deck cars . |
| 3 | Through her daze she slowly became aware of the sergeant 's voice . |
| 4 | His resignation took effect from March 28 when delegates of the ruling People 's National Party ( PNP ) elected a new party president who automatically became Prime Minister . |
| 5 | As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room . |
| 6 | Somehow I managed to get Joe out of the house , and in the daylight he gradually became normal again . |
| 7 | Something was badly out of alignment which only became apparent at speed . |
| 8 | Got squashed in the photo files by Brendon Fitzgerald , broke the photocopier , got lost looking for the canteen , uncovered the truth about IPC tea , became Dele Fadele 's personal typewriter ribbon engineer ( have been ever since ) , discovered House music had not yet reached Waterloo , realised that guitars really are the work of the devil , mended the then extremely sad NME stereo ( ie , plugged it in ) and was quickly appointed technical supervisor to anything mechanical ( plugs , electrical toothbrushes ) , invented dance music , formed Subbuteo league with James Brown and Simon Dudfield which eventually became fixed beyond all belief , tried to blag a Misty In Roots CD and failed . |
| 9 | Similarly , in West Germany collective agreements have on occasion introduced new labour norms which subsequently became generalised minimum statutory standards . |
| 10 | Witchcraft itself never became illegal ( as on the continent where the Inquisition held sway ) , only the alleged effects , such as damage to goods , or death and injury to people . |
| 11 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 12 | Having established myself in a job I again became active in boys ' work and took charge of additional Tuxis Boys ' groups in company with Lincoln Lovett , Chief Clerk at the Land Titles Office . |
| 13 | Just look at some of the people who have managed to hold down the job over the years : Tommy Docherty , Malcolm Allison , Bobby ‘ Rattling Dentures ’ Robson , most of the 1970–71 Leeds side ( although none of them for very long ) , Alan Ball and various sad , ex-midfield maestros who later became senior sales executives ( North Lincolnshire Region ) for foot-salve manufacturers and double glazing distribution companies . |
| 14 | Some MPs who had previously voted for the Exclusion Bill turned Jacobite , amongst them Sir William Whitlock ( a former member of the Green Ribbon Club ) and Edward Harvey ( though in the process they also became High Tories ) . |
| 15 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 16 | During the same period he clearly became involved in royal service , for in 1250 he acted for Henry III at the papal curia in securing the confirmation of the highly controversial election to the bishopric of Winchester of Aymer de Valence [ q.v. ] , the king 's half-brother , and then , in the next year , he was appointed the king 's proctor at the papal curia . |
| 17 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 18 | Identical pitfalls await the student of what political scientists call the ‘ overload ’ problem in government when he or she attempts to read into the past harbingers of difficulties which subsequently became acute . |
| 19 | Essentially , the boom revolved around four figures who rapidly became international celebrities — Cortázar , Fuentes , García Márquez and Vargas Llosa — and , in the wake of their success , other writers such as Lezama Lima , Donoso and Cabrera Infante came to prominence . |
| 20 | IN the Great North Forest the other day it quickly became clear that there was a pretty significant absence . |
| 21 | Coleridge and Southey themselves soon became impervious to all doubt . |
| 22 | Br. 191 , 27 , 1095 ) the only mention of protection against poison gas — which played a vital role in World War I — is a photograph of troops wearing a primitive cloth helmet which rapidly became redundant . |
| 23 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 24 | In terms of policy it thus became essential to try to weaken the English grip upon both the sea and the main rivers , such as the Oise , which flowed into the Seine , by seeking to detach the Burgundians from their English links . |
| 25 | Sometimes it has played a pioneering role in bringing about new developments , such as the Renault agreement on the duration of holidays which then became generalised by legislation ( Despax and Rojot , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Or perhaps one of these workaholics who only became aware of difficulties in their marriage when their wives had packed their bags and left their goodbye note on the mantelpiece ? |
| 27 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 28 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 29 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 30 | Beyond this , one can add as likely members of the retinue a few men who suddenly became visible after Richard 's accession , such as David ap Guillim Morgan or , at a humbler level , David ap Jenkins who migrated to England to become a yeoman of the crown and hold office in Pontefract . |