Example sentences of "[noun] became the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 2 | Few of the specifics of the James proposals were implemented in the forms envisaged , but government acceptance of the principle of a degree structure to replace the certificate became the focus of debate and planning in the colleges and departments of education . |
| 3 | Value for money became the watchword , explains Derek Kelly , a turkey breeder for over 40 years : ‘ It was all a matter of price per pound . ’ |
| 4 | In mid-1988 the PTT Ministry became the PTE ( 'E' for space — ‘ espace ’ ) Ministry and its Minister , Paul Quiles , announced that France Télécom would become the majority shareholder in TDF . |
| 5 | The permanent secretary in each ministry became the accounting officer responsible to the Treasury for the expenditure of the money allocated to his ministry . |
| 6 | Assessment became the field in which there were the largest number of changes and retractions in government policy . |
| 7 | The Act of Parliament received Royal Assent and from I January 1948 , the London Passenger Transport Board became the London Transport Executive as one of the integral parts of the British Transport Commission . |
| 8 | An agreement was reached that month under which Sihanouk became the SNC 's neutral chair or president . |
| 9 | The lists also show that the Elizabethan era was a period of considerable economic change as the woolstaplers were replaced by the butchers and the tanners ; cattle rather than sheep became the basis of local wealth , especially after 1541 when the disappearance of the Wyggestons removed a family which had dominated the town 's economy for two or three generations . |
| 10 | The midnight sum indeed lasted all night , and one scientist became the ghost of the ship , a phantom who one would glimpse briefly only at three or four in the morning . |
| 11 | From the moment of its entry into action as the first all-American unit involved in the war , the Lafayette Squadron became the object of immense publicity throughout the United States . |
| 12 | Swindon became the end of the line for east bound Inter City trains . |
| 13 | In the Daily Mail , Pamella 's story became the tale of a ‘ sickeningly self-obsessed , utterly immoral and unashamedly amoral … call-girl ’ , ‘ an avaricious , manipulative woman with a beautiful face … a pathetic figure whose life can now only be on a downward slope . ’ |
| 14 | In 1959 the Manchester Guardian became the Guardian and C. P. Snow published his lecture on ‘ The Two Cultures ’ . |
| 15 | Born less than 100 years ago , cinema became the art form of the 20th Century . |
| 16 | The case became the standard for setting the difference between libel and slander . |
| 17 | The other branch became the yang style that is popular in the West today . |
| 18 | Indeed , the nature , organisation and teaching of library skills became the subject of fiery debate , both within and outside the library committee . |
| 19 | According to local legend , this is how Kent cigarettes rather than any other brand became the currency of the black market in Romania . |
| 20 | In 1981 , a programming on a powerful Cray computer became the Mississippi State Champion . |
| 21 | Keturah 's sons became the ancestors of a number of north Arabian peoples . |
| 22 | Rituals of transgression , sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century . |
| 23 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 24 | In its very first vintage , Carden Park became the holder of the English Vineyard 's Association 's coveted Gold Seal in 1990 . |
| 25 | Korn became the front-man of the organisation whilst Ferry was in charge of the back room ; both were previously involved in Peat Marwick Mitchell 's headhunting branch . |
| 26 | And as the individual thinks , so , in more general terms , does the larger community : the decline of Britain 's automobile industry to the point where imports exceeded exports became the measure of the country 's fall from a place in the industrial front rank . |
| 27 | Gyoezoe Szabo became the Chief of the National Police Force in June 1990 . |
| 28 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 29 | The idea of death as a transition from one phase of life to another that could only be satisfactorily effected by performing the appropriate rituals became the pattern for dealing with other natural changes . |
| 30 | This general concern of underachievement became the focus for LAMP 's successor , the Raising Achievement in Mathematics Project ( RAMP , 1986–9 ) which involves teachers from 34 LEAs nationally . |