Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the litopterns , like the horses , lost all their toes except the middle one on each leg , which became enlarged as the bottom joint of the leg and developed a hoof . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 4 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 5 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 8 | The Committee decided to form a government and by Wednesday 1 March Miliukov , who had emerged as the dominant figure , was drawing up a list of potential cabinet ministers . |
| 9 | The Greenham women complained of police brutality but , as Johnson points out , ‘ The press portrayed the blockading women as screaming harridans , contrasting us with what they had presented as the nice , well-meaning middle-class mothers and grandmothers the day before ’ ( Johnson , 1989:167 ) . |
| 10 | Fears of communism had deep roots in the past ( p.6 ) and they had increased as the Cold War developed after 1945 . |
| 11 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
| 12 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 13 | But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist . |
| 14 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 15 | Even The Listener job , which he left acknowledged as the best literary editor of his day , produced a characteristic essay in self-denigration . |
| 16 | What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This airframe was the founder member of what became known as the National Aeronautical Collection ( NAC ) and the bulk of the airframes presented in the new gallery are from that grouping . |
| 20 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 21 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |