Example sentences of "it became the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The powers of the Federal government inevitably increased as it became the chief customer for the war materials poured out by industry . |
2 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
3 | Colworth was an Elizabethan house in origin , altered in the 1760s and again about 1810 : it became the principal residence of Magniac , who again extended the house , which he acquired outright in 1854 . |
4 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
5 | No longer a mixture of local dialects , Standard English " had emerged " , and the east Midland dialect " had now become " the King " s English ; finally , " through the works of Chaucer it became the literary language of the country " . |
6 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
7 | It became the common currency of speeches on the empire to advocate the extension of the principle of self-government to all within it , even unto the lowliest . |
8 | Her mind had been occupied with things like the freezing point of soda water or the melting point of cheese ; later on it became the non-revolutionary redistribution of the means of production and the alternate vote . |
9 | During the peak ( or nadir ) of the so-called ‘ Dark Ages ’ , it became the true centre of learning for the whole of Europe . |
10 | It became the National Arboretum for Northern Ireland . |
11 | Ten years later , it became the National Institute of Arthritis , Diabetes , Digestive and Kidney Diseases . |
12 | Its dominance was not confined to the academic world ; indeed , it became the intellectual creed of US foreign policy in the late 1940s and 1950s . |
13 | It became the permanent home of the German race with the exception of 1959 when the race was staged at Avus , and 1970 when Hockenheim was used for the first time . |
14 | At home , the SPB ( it became the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds only in 1904 ) began to set up Nature reserves during the 1880s , as the decline in some native species became apparent . |
15 | Eventually , it became the main type of music played by the sound systems , as its popularity grew among young blacks who abandoned skinhead reggae . |