Example sentences of "[adj] became the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock indicated yesterday that , even if Labour became the majority government , he would make a strong appeal for consensus inside and outside Parliament and move away from the ‘ confrontational ’ politics of the past 13 years . |
| 3 | After the Second World War some became the sites of new industries located there specifically to draw on work-hungry women , but that respite lasted only two or three decades . |
| 4 | For Wales , however , with its smaller local authorities , an ad hoc agency was to be created ( this became the Land Authority for Wales ) . |
| 5 | While the peace Ballot held the field among peace activists , Sheppard made no attempt to establish an organization , but in July 1935 the ‘ Sheppard peace Movement ’ was founded , and in May 1936 this became the peace pledge Union . |
| 6 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 7 | Stokely Carmichael of the SNCC , one of the emerging radical leaders , summarized these ideas in a single phrase : " What we want , " he said , is " black power " , and this became the slogan of the more militant black movements from 1966 . |
| 8 | This became the norm just before the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | This became the church of the Michna family whose palace was close by . |
| 10 | This became the church of the Domenican Order when the Domenicans had to leave the Clementinum . |
| 11 | In 1896 this became the Division of the Biological Survey , which provided extensive information on the distribution of various native species of birds and animals . |
| 12 | This became the genesis of his German policy after 1958 . |
| 13 | This became the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company , and D'Arcy 's shareholding made him a very rich man . |
| 14 | They formed the Poor Law Board in 1847 , and this was transformed into the Local Government Board twenty-four years later ; in its turn this became the Ministry of Health in 1919 . |
| 15 | This became the summit that never was — ostensibly because of the dispute provoked by the American U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over the USSR . |
| 16 | This became the basis for its industrial production . |
| 17 | This became the object of pilgrimage until the shrine was destroyed some time in the 16th century . |
| 18 | In 1875 Boston Spa College was purchased , and this became the nucleus of the present School . |
| 19 | However , at this point , the proposal that a computer index could be developed to improve the management of filing systems generally was considered worthwhile , and this became the focus of the early part of the study . |
| 20 | In 1853 this became the Liberation Society and nearly fifty years later , Joseph Parker said in the midst of his speech on reorganizing the Congregational Union , ‘ Every Council of Free Churches is an auxiliary of that Society [ Liberation Society ] , whether nominally so or not ’ . |
| 21 | This became the rallying cry of street demonstrators who held a series of protest meetings against the NSF , culminating in an occupation of University Square in Bucharest on April 22 , which lasted until after polling day . |
| 22 | After 1777 , when the Jesuits had been banned , this became the seat of the governor of Bohemia . |
| 23 | Nearing the end of the 70s this became the plumb to pick . |
| 24 | The Noble Land Bank established in 1885 became the source of low-interest loans to rescue insolvent estates and encourage landlords to secure their future by investing in and improving their land . |
| 25 | The group held further regular meetings including that in May 1991 [ see p. 38209 ] and in July 1991 became the Hexagonale group with the admission of Poland [ see p. 38358 ] . |
| 26 | His first seventeen designs carried the AIR– designation but in 1937 the eighteenth became the Ya–18 and during the Second World War the now well known Yak-prefix came into being . |
| 27 | The evaluators selected particular areas of interest for analysis and these became the subjects of a number of working papers in which tentative models were constructed and explanations offered . |
| 28 | That bank when built in 1908 became the ladies 3rd tee box . |
| 29 | Resolution 242 became the corner-stone of almost every peace initiative that followed . |
| 30 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |