Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] became [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 2 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 3 | Thus the 1986 Social Security Act followed the so-called Fowler Reviews , which had a restricted membership , took only limited evidence ( which was not reproduced in the final report ) and resulted in a Green Paper that largely became the 1986 Act . |
| 4 | They were tagged ‘ miserable sods ’ — a label that soon became a standing joke — and the arguments raged . |
| 5 | It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy , though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race . |
| 6 | In a consultation document issued before the publication of the Education Reform Bill that subsequently became the 1988 Act , the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales gave one example of how the national curriculum might be divided in practice . |
| 7 | In the Czech Republic , a local company named Cesopot that recently became a BP distributor is about to sign with Unipart as its distributor too . |
| 8 | One gang set fire to a shop after wrecking it and then that too became a feature of the attacks . |
| 9 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 10 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 11 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 12 | In ancient times this magnificent monument must have been much admired and it is hardly surprising that Imhotep was remembered as a great man and eventually became a god . |
| 13 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 14 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 17 | The school later moved to Gower St , was granted a royal patent , and eventually became the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . |
| 18 | This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man . |
| 19 | The palace was never finished and eventually became the property of the powerful Schwarzenberg family who created a beautiful formal garden on the site . |
| 20 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 21 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 22 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 23 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 24 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 25 | He was fortunate enough to marry Louis XII 's only daughter and so became the appointed successor . |
| 26 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 27 | Yet Louth-born Wilkinson was a midfield player as a schoolboy and only became a forward by accident . |
| 28 | But then again , the Golden Höfner was the flagship of the company 's electric hollow-bodied range between ‘ 59 and ‘ 62 and naturally became a platform for showing just what could be done . |
| 29 | Much was seized for food by a starving population , and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs . |
| 30 | Amphibious raiding along the Channel coast and elsewhere became a coordinated intelligence gathering operation in preparation for the opening of a Second Front by the invasion of Europe , plans for which entailed amphibious training for large armies , pre-empting men and equipment from possible large raids . |