Example sentences of "became [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The son of one of the Sheriffs of Glasgow , he lost his hearing at an early age and after first attending an ordinary day school , became one of the private pupils of the Headmaster of the Glasgow Institution . |
| 2 | He became one of the twelve peers of the kingdom , taking his place beside the count of Flanders , the duke of Burgundy and the count of Anjou . |
| 3 | She became one of the greatest sportswomen of the century and was stunningly beautiful to boot . |
| 4 | The thirteen year old is also fascinated by the English born clown who became one of the greatest influences on the cinema . |
| 5 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 6 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 7 | He seemed to be haunted by a fear of being forgotten by his friends and Gould became one of the many objects of an obsessive correspondence . |
| 8 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 9 | Indeed , as the operation wore on , badly in need of justification , peace became one of the chief pretexts for it ; and not entirely a pretext . |
| 10 | In November 1973 Friends of the Earth published his book World Energy Strategies — written before the October 1973 oil shock — which thereafter appeared in many other countries and languages , and became one of the seminal documents of the ‘ alternative energy ’ literature . |
| 11 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 12 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 13 | Susan , Anne 's daughter by Didier , became one of the first geniuses of the form , moulding her night fantasies into unforgettably affecting tapestries of emotion and narrative . |
| 14 | One sherpa — Tensing Norgay accompanied Sir Edward Hillary and became one of the first men to climb Mt . |
| 15 | David , 28 , became one of the two Faces of '93 at a glittering spring fashion show at Ipswich Corn Exchange . |
| 16 | Thus together we became one of the lowest forms of animal life in the Royal Air Force , the most junior — a very thin single ring — but , nevertheless , Leonard Cheshire had a stamp of his very own . |
| 17 | After the exile the sabbath rules were strictly enforced ( Nehemiah 13:15–22 ) , and their observance became one of the outstanding features of Judaism . |
| 18 | May became one of the outstanding architects of the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Worse still , ‘ sealed lips ’ became one of the political catch-phrases of the thirties . |
| 20 | Since healing and religion were interrelated , the smoking of sick people ( to exorcise evil spirits ) became one of the earliest forms of medicine . |
| 21 | He had financed Turner 's journey to Venice in 1833 and in 1844 he became one of the four trustees of Turner 's charity for the relief of decayed and indigent artists . |
| 22 | Teresa of Avila became one of the great reformers of the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | The author of these words , John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville Skeffington , the thirteenth Viscount Massereene and sixth Viscount Ferrard , became one of the great institutions of the House of Lords , an inveterate campaigner for field sports . |
| 24 | Forsyth immediately became one of the great hopes of British cinema , and much of the well-earned praise for the eagerly awaited films that followed came edged with disappointment . |
| 25 | Along with Bologna , Oxford and Paris , it became one of the great centres of medieval scholarship , attracting students from all over Europe . |
| 26 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 27 | Corruption among the Party officials who ran the system of supply and distribution of goods became one of the major sources of conflict between the senior generals and the Party . |
| 28 | These were closely tailored to meet the economic and political needs of the colonizers : education became one of the major instruments for extending colonial power . |
| 29 | Anonymity became one of the major issues of the 1970s legislation , but there is no doubt that the detail of much of the reporting of rape cases in the early 1970s became — and we would argue , has continued to be deliberately titillating . |
| 30 | KEN VENTURI became one of the unluckiest men in golf when he missed the chance to take the Masters as an amateur . |