Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the alleged wisdom that inheres in institutions and practice is part of what she has regarded as the flabby consensus that dragged the country down . |
| 2 | The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T . |
| 3 | Williams has emerged as the unrelenting villain as he patrols what has turned into Fortress Didcot , the race-team HQ , refusing to enlighten the enraged Mansell army on the reasons for their split . |
| 4 | BSN , the sprawling French group with interests spreading from food and beer to packaging , has emerged as the new favourite for the Scottish stake . |
| 5 | Since the mid-1960s the growth rate of Eurodeposits has been more than double that of the world money supply and London has emerged as the major centre for Eurocurrency business . |
| 6 | PETER RAWLINS , a former partner with accountants Arthur Andersen , has emerged as the International Stock Exchange 's next chief executive following the decision of Jeffrey Knight to stand down from the post , writes John Moore . |
| 7 | Council housing has emerged as the main form of tenure of the Afro Caribbean population of Great Britain . |
| 8 | THE MAN who masterminded those famously spunky advertisements for Castlemaine XXXX lager has emerged as the Tory Party 's last minute secret weapon . |
| 9 | In the twentieth century , natural selection has emerged as the dominant theory by which biologists explain the evolutionary mechanism . |
| 10 | He has emerged as the dominant personality in the commercial network . |
| 11 | Although Robert Teeter remained as the nominal head of the Bush campaign , it was generally acknowledged that Baker would use his new post to exercise overall and ultimate responsibility for the campaign and attempt to provide it with a greater degree of coherence . |
| 12 | Hua 's ‘ two whatevers ’ policy seemed doomed as the important article , ‘ Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth ’ , was published in May 1978 . |
| 13 | Full details will become known as the successive subject working groups report , and programmes of study and attainment targets are drawn up . |
| 14 | I get pigeon-holed as the vulnerable bloke who 's crap at relationships and who 's always arguing with his dad . |
| 15 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 16 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 17 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |
| 18 | Spasticity , which comes from the word ‘ spasm ’ , has become known as the common term for the whole range of cerebral palsy handicaps but the three forms are significantly different . |
| 19 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 20 | The monitoring network has become known as the radioactive incident monitoring network ( RIMNET ) and has , as its prime responsibility , the detection of abnormal increases in radiation levels within the UK of the kind that might arise from an overseas nuclear accident . |
| 21 | Secondly , we outline what has become known as the Keynesian theory of national income determination . |
| 22 | Forced labour was indeed the form taken by the administration 's next major effort to deal with what had become known as the moran problem . |
| 23 | Some will still recall the warm fire at the far end of what became known as the Primary Room and the tiny wooden chairs which allowed small feet almost to reach the ground . |
| 24 | Stray dogs and chickens wandered in and had to be shooed out , and in the winter evenings when her mother told stories about saints and piskies and dragon-fillers by the light of the fire , the neighbouring children would crowd in at the door to listen , so that after a while her mother became known as the best storyteller in Polruan . |
| 25 | His force had recently been strengthened by a group of Greeks , who became known as the Sacred Squadron , the latest recruits to the SAS empire . |
| 26 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 27 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 28 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 29 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 30 | Dotrice , who comes from a showbusiness family — her father is actor Roy — had been acting since childhood and soon became known as the long-suffering wife of television 's most disaster-prone character . |