Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] became [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusal in payment , forgery or any other misuse thereby became treason or sacrilege and attracted savage penalties . |
| 2 | Randall and Sayers both became professors and Randall was knighted . |
| 3 | These companies in practice then became part of a national cartel . |
| 4 | Dr Anne Wright recently became Sunderland Polytechnic 's first woman chief executive , only the second woman in the UK to head a polytechnic . |
| 5 | It was in Aden that the alternative solution was found , and Paul Nizan finally became Paul Nizan . |
| 6 | The SEATO Pact effectively became moribund in the wake of the American military withdrawal from Indo-China in the mid 1970s , and was not reinvigorated . |
| 7 | Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer . |
| 8 | Turner nearly became Mr Big at Barnet a couple of years ago when he fronted a consortium negotiating to buy the club from chairman Stan Flash-man . |
| 9 | Two of the sons of that marriage also became doctors , Thomas and Charles , and it was under their supervision that the asylum was moved from Manor Farm House to Chiswick House in 1893 , where it remained until 1929 . |
| 10 | However hard she had to fight , she would make certain that Janice never became Kirsty 's mother ! |
| 11 | His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse . |
| 12 | Many of the women who remained in the trade until their senior years eventually became readers , with higher pay and status than they had ever enjoyed before . |
| 13 | That would have to stop if a draft EC directive ever became law ; Norway would not be allowed to keep so much to itself . |
| 14 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |
| 15 | Two of Sancton 's early dissenters earned the highest honour which Methodism has to confer on its preachers : Thomas and Samuel Jackson both became presidents of the Wesleyan Conference . |
| 16 | Back in 1976 , Eddie was responsible for the group 's published accounts and three years later became company secretary , assuming responsibility for office administration and personnel during his time in that post . |
| 17 | In 1927 Pillai was appointed assistant collector of customs in Madras and two years later became deputy director of commercial Intelligence in Calcutta . |
| 18 | A pioneer in this department is Ed Kienholz , who some years ago became Ed and Nancy Kienholz and not just on the marriage certificate . |
| 19 | The Manager , Mr. Ratcliffe Hulme , resigned and was replaced in July , by A. V. Mason from Devonport , who became Manager and Engineer of the S.M.E.T. C. W. Durnford , the S.M.E.T. Engineer then became Manager at Devonport . |
| 20 | Alpha , beta and gamma radiation , together with cosmic rays , are referred to as ionising radiation because they interact with atoms , removing electrons from them , and the atoms then became ions . |
| 21 | The counts therefore became Elector Counts , and the Empire 's system of elected Emperors was established . |
| 22 | The Committee , with the support of the Resource Planning & Finance Committee , initiated a twelve-month pilot scheme whereby upon payment of a lump sum by the student society , all students at the School of Architecture , De Montfort University automatically became student members of the RIBA . |
| 23 | Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation . |
| 24 | After independence in Nigeria , for example , political conflict soon became conflict between sectional groups mobilized to support the political wings of the bourgeoisie who were in competition for the spoils of office . |
| 25 | Lord Buckhurst even tried to argue , rather implausibly , that a patent of office quam diu se bene gesserit automatically became void on the misbehaviour of the holder , and that therefore this type of tenure was less secure than durante bene placito . |
| 26 | And to complicate matters somewhat , historically many items that first appeared as luxury goods later became items of mass consumption and thus entered into the determination of the value of labour-power ; these include motor cars , vacuum cleaners , washing machines . |
| 27 | In East Anglia , where Beonna probably became king c . |
| 28 | The production of Le nozze di Figaro which Gründgens did earlier with Klemperer in 1931 was said to be politically very radical , yet Gründgens later became Intendant of Berlin 's Staatliches Schauspielhaus , with Goering 's support . |
| 29 | The Breton later became part originator of the Canadian breed , so that it is possible that the genes of the extinct small Cornish cattle are perpetuated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 30 | As well as rehearsing the Girls Jessie Wharton now became companion to Mrs Tiller . |