Example sentences of "became the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of language symbolized and condensed the anxiety provoked by the black presence and became the preferred site for an educational response . |
| 2 | In 1878 he became the joint winner in Birmingham of a handicap walking race over a mile with a 45-yard handicap . |
| 3 | Harriet became the joint youngest girl to win an international ranking ; Adam the joint youngest boy . |
| 4 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 5 | Just which aircraft became the famous Faith , Hope and Charity — if ever they were marked as such — is unclear . |
| 6 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 7 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 8 | This was that women became subordinated economically because the men gained control of the means of production , and so ‘ while the husband became the bourgeois the wife represented the proletariat ’ [ p. 137 ] . |
| 9 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 10 | In East Anglia , Colchester became the Roman Army Headquarters and later an important civil town . |
| 11 | What became the Criminal Justice Act of 1961 was a relatively short statute of forty-five sections and six schedules , with more of a coherent theme than is usually found in comparable legislation . |
| 12 | With the unforeseen addition of partly suspended sentences when the Bill reached the Commons , the resulting measure became the Criminal Law Act 1977 , finally amounting to sixty-five sections and fourteen schedules . |
| 13 | They both refused and sat down as Evelyn became the welcoming host . |
| 14 | After his release he lived in Kent , preaching regularly in Rochester Cathedral and laying the foundations for what became the Quaker community there . |
| 15 | OLD Kingstonians and Brooklands became the final qualifiers for next year 's Pizza Express National League , winning their play-off matches yesterday to earn places in the Second Division . |
| 16 | Ptah was an important god from the First Dynasty , when Memphis became the administrative capital of Egypt . |
| 17 | However , the large number of castles erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ( Fig. 12 ) and the hundreds of new monasteries founded during the same period also became the administrative centres of their estates , even if only for brief periods . |
| 18 | Circular kilns first appeared in Kent around 1805 and soon became the normal pattern there . |
| 19 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 20 | The potatoes were then regularly placed on the beach which now became the normal habitat for the macaques . |
| 21 | They hurled stones , and thereafter stones — in place of the Kalashnikov — became the prime weapon and symbol of the ‘ blessed ’ Intifada which has transformed the whole nature of the Arab- |
| 22 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 23 | In securing huge government land grants as an inducement to build , the railways became the prime engine of migration , transporting the migrants , acting as land agents , supplying their machinery , building materials , and seed , and later shipping ( a word which developed land-bound connotations ) their produce . |
| 24 | Larry and the other pocket knife owner became the prime suspects and it got quite ugly with such suggestions as , ‘ why do n't you admit it , you know you did it ’ . |
| 25 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
| 26 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 27 | Remaisnil became the staged version of her perfected life , the culmination of the myth which was such a potent force for customer and company alike and without which the art could not flourish . |
| 28 | This boy became the Dutch poet , Ed Hoornik . |
| 29 | Give Peace A Chance , John Lennon & Yoko Ono : The hirsute duo 's anthem became the plaintive ‘ All we are saying is give us a goal ’ |
| 30 | In the fifteenth century the Italian humanists introduced considerable refinement , the ‘ humanistic minuscule ’ was gradually adopted throughout the Christian world , and became the cursive hand which was eventually termed ‘ italic ’ . |