Example sentences of "[adv] became a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 2 | So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector . |
| 3 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 4 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 5 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 6 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 7 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 8 | A crew was predominantly a male group , like any other city gang , yet the skinhead girls eventually became an accepted part of the scene . |
| 9 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 10 | Slatter also served on the county committee for 30 years , edited the club handbook , and eventually became an Honorary member of both Buckinghamshire and the Minor Counties Cricket Association . |
| 11 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 12 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 13 | My placid father who was just wiping his hands suddenly became a raging bull ! |
| 14 | The Disunited Kingdom suddenly became a potent slogan , and helped the Tories staunch the haemorrhage against them in Scotland . |
| 15 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 16 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 17 | As young people were being encouraged , if not forced , to raise the stakes of involvement , by the pressures of the wars , brutal police , terrorist causes and other assorted hostilities , violence suddenly became an integral part of the youth movement as the feeling of the impending apocalypse heightened . |
| 18 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 19 | Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s . |
| 20 | In its later stages , the conflict settled around two issues : ( a ) official information , which in modern conditions was of direct political interest to the State ; and ( b ) obscenity , which characteristically only became a major object of legislation in the nineteenth century , with the development of an effective popular market . |
| 21 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 22 | In fact , I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college . |
| 23 | But for a can only mean that a " right " ( which perhaps already became a legal " cause " or " case " ) has " vanished " , sc . |
| 24 | Noddy began pursuing everything on four wheels , or two , with such enthusiasm that he soon became a familiar sight to the farmers who made their living along the lane . |
| 25 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 26 | Many drivers cheerfully collected loads that were offered from all over the city , and gradually with their help and that of certain ‘ able-bodied men and women ’ mountains of books accumulated in the Davidson Room , while the Undercroft cupboard soon became a veritable Aladdin 's Cave of ‘ Unwanted Gifts ’ . |
| 27 | A mixed group , many of whose members showed little respect for the principle of lesbian and gay self-organization , it soon became a sectarian battlefield and did little to organize lesbians and gays with no previous political experience . |
| 28 | It soon became a successful coal port and ship-building centre . |
| 29 | At first befriending a local diver , Nina then attracted a Cousteau film team and her fame spread until she soon became a Spanish national heroine . |
| 30 | It soon became a phenomenal success , and was closely followed by the opening of a major factory in Wijk , Holland , ‘ bought with borrowed money that was not available to the company ’ , James commented . |