Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] became " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the North , in the Democratic Republic , the army shed all guerrilla characteristics and became a professional force . |
| 2 | They are fleetingly referred to in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian stelae and became popular as servants — and as passive sexual playthings — in the degenerate days of the later Roman Empire . |
| 3 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 4 | The youngest of the family , John , was quite unlike his brothers and became a Spanish Merchant . |
| 5 | Halfway across , as the Channel became La Manche , language reassembled itself , rose from the waves and became French . |
| 6 | One pellet lodged between his eyes and became a permanent dimple . |
| 7 | Geelong forward Gary Ablett led his team with a record-breaking nine goals and became only the second person to win the most valuable player award while playing on a losing side . |
| 8 | In the process the NCB exhausted its reserves and became technically insolvent . |
| 9 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |
| 10 | Charles acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and became a patron of Rubens and van Dyck as well as of Inigo Jones , who was commissioned not only to build palaces but to write and produce masques at Court . |
| 11 | To them I was just another recruit , and if I did well , got myself through the first six months and became a legionnaire , then I would matter to them because I would be part of their system . |
| 12 | Their friendship developed soon afterwards , to the point that they shared each other 's homes and became very close chums . |
| 13 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 14 | Although many of the yeniçeri forgot all about their origins and became fanatical Muslims , behaving oppressively to their former compatriots when they were posted back into the Balkans , others , like Sokolović , kept in contact with their people and tried to help them . |
| 15 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | They had rudimentary spinal columns and became the forerunners of fish . |
| 17 | In establishing their own style , the younger brothers of the mods adopted certain elements of the mod style , combined them with items from traditional working clothes , borrowed some influences from the West Indian blacks and became skinheads . |
| 18 | Yanto waited another five minutes and became aware of the ever increasing wind as it began to flap his collar . |
| 19 | It was at university under the tutelage of Maurice Cowling and others that he changed his political views and became a believer in Friedmanite economics . |
| 20 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 21 | Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure . |
| 22 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 23 | Dorking County Grammar , a mixed provincial grammar school of around 600 pupils , moved with the times and became the Ashcombe School , a mixed comprehensive of 1,000 pupils . |
| 24 | Rounding of broken ends was produced within 60 hours and became pronounced after 192 hours . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission 's proposals for the conurbations survived the Conservative government 's different attitude towards unitary local authorities and became part of an overall two-tier system . |
| 26 | The indicated remedy appeared to be spigelia , but when she was given this she developed palpitations and became quite anxious . |
| 27 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 28 | The fairs could last for up to forty-nine days and became a meeting place for merchants from Spain , Italy , England , the Low Countries and other parts of France . |
| 29 | This view seems a little extreme and in Asfar v. Blundell ( 1896 C.A. ) it was held that dates , which were under water for two days and became impregnated with sewage , had perished — i.e. in a commercial sense . |
| 30 | He held the job for five years and became heavily involved in building Esso 's Milford Haven refinery and the new Irish refinery . |