Example sentences of "which became [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until thirty years after Anselm that Archbishop Theobald began to build up an administrative staff necessary for the dual organization of ecclesiastical and secular affairs along the lines which became familiar in the later Middle Ages . |
| 2 | The term is generally taken to denote that section of the educated élite — an élite deliberately nurtured by the tsarist regime to man the civil and military establishment — which became critical of the existing order . |
| 3 | Although many Latin American Communist parties were split by Trotskyism , the only significant Trotskyist party in the region was the Bolivian Workers ' Revolutionary party ( POR ) , which became one of the two leading Fourth International affiliates in the world ( the other being in Sri Lanka ) . |
| 4 | It proved to be a conservative estimate Marshall Field , who arrived in Chicago with one dollar in his pocket built one of the worlds greatest department stores and had enough spare energy to partner Pullman in the railcar business , become vice-president of both General Electric and the Edison Company , president of United States Steel , founder of the Chicago Sun and a bank which became one of the four biggest in the world . |
| 5 | With Cranage 's resignation in 1928 , the links with the tradition of university extension on a national scale at Cambridge were gradually replaced by new opportunities for regional development which became available under the 1924 and , later , the 1932 Adult Education Regulations . |
| 6 | These high mean ages at onset and the absence of difference in uptake between hypertensives and controls reflect the history of oral contraception , which became available in the early 1960s and made rapid progress in this village , with our support . |
| 7 | Perhaps their own style , which became dominant in the twentieth century , did not emerge as such until sciences moved into the phase of theory and systematising which ( for rather obscure reasons ) suited them admirably . |
| 8 | Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) . |
| 9 | For this reason there has been a great effort , over the years , to develop synthetic resin glues based , more or less , on the plastics which became popular in the 1930s . |
| 10 | Graphite mining was another industry which became important in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Thus the more restrictive approach coincided with increased expressed need by black parents , and began to highlight issues about ‘ race ’ and child care , which became important in the 1980s . |
| 12 | By ‘ thought ’ , however , Pascal does not mean that somewhat shallow notion of Reason which became fashionable in the eighteenth century and which has become fashionable again in the twentieth in the guise of formal logic . |