Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] became [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 2 | We turned north , away from the mountain , then off the highway on to a dirt road that soon became sand . |
| 3 | Sanders had been a Whip and a specialist in franchise matters before the war , so his return to Westminster gave an added impetus to the party campaign against the Bill ; he became a sort of unofficial party Whip against a government that the party supported , cooperated closely with George Younger , by this time Party Chairman , and eventually became deputy chairman of the party himself in 1918 . |
| 4 | Mr Shove joined the company in 1937 and eventually became chairman and managing director . |
| 5 | in the City of Nottingham and eventually became Chairman of the Licensing Bench . |
| 6 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
| 7 | In 1854 Holford married Mary Anne , daughter of General James Lindsay , MP , of Balcarres , Fife , and thus became brother-in-law to three collectors , Alexander Crawford ( twenty-fifth Earl of Crawford ) , Robert Lindsay ( Baron Wantage ) [ qq.v. ] , and Sir Coutts Lindsay . |
| 8 | In 1882 he joined Tangye Ltd. in Birmingham and soon became head of the lifting machinery department and an expert in hydraulically operated machinery . |
| 9 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 10 | The first passenger packet boats operated from Warrington to Manchester and later became part of a through route from Liverpool to Manchester via Runcorn . |
| 11 | Her father obtained a commission in the Royal Marines in 1755 , was promoted to captain by 1761 , and later became groom of the bedchamber to George III , though in time he fell from favour at court . |
| 12 | , Edmund ( c. 1670–1738 ) , scientific instrument-maker , was born c .1670 in Tarrant Gunville , the son of Edward Culpeper , formerly a servitor at Merton College , Oxford , who took his BA from Merton in 1858 , and later became rector of Tarrant Gunville in Dorset . |
| 13 | A native of Togo , Sr Pierre-Elise studied and practised journalism , was the founder of the Catholic bookshop in Lomé , and later became Director of the Audiovisual and Pastoral Centre of Togo . |
| 14 | A native of Togo , Sr Pierre-Elise studied and practised journalism , was the founder of the Catholic bookshop in Lomé , and later became Director of the Audiovisual and Pastoral Centre of Togo . |
| 15 | During the mid-1930s Mr Harold Burns , owner of a garage in Congleton , Cheshire , was very well known and later became Mayor , built and flew a Mignet HM.14 Flying Flea . |
| 16 | Burgess joined the BBC in October 1936 as a producer in the talks department , and later became producer of ‘ The Week in Westminster ’ . |
| 17 | Other bequests include those of Cecil Madden ( who , besides being a prolific playwright , was the first producer for television at Alexandra Palace in 1936 and later became Assistant to the Controller of BBC Television Programmes ) and , more recently , the substantial theatrical library of Alfred Emmet , co-founder of the famous Questors Theatre . |
| 18 | The MMM leader , Prem Nababsingh , replaced the dismissed Sir Satcam Boolell as Deputy Prime Minister and also became Minister of Health ; the other MMM appointees were : Jean-Claude de l'Estrac — Foreign Affairs ( briefly held by Agriculture Minister Madun Dulloo — ibid . ) ; |
| 19 | In 1912 he was appointed London director of the new Johannesburg Art Gallery and also became valuer of pictures and drawings for the Board of the Inland Revenue ( 1912–14 ) . |
| 20 | FABULOUS 208 : Started life as Fabulous and then became house mag of Radio Luxembourg . |
| 21 | Hopper thought he was another Dean , and then became outcast from Hollywood within three years because he acquired a reputation for being a mean-like perfectionist . |
| 22 | Next , according to Taskopruzade and Mecdi , Fahreddin Acemi taught in certain medreses and then became Mufti in the time of Murad II with a salary of 30 akce a day . |
| 23 | While Mustakimzade is probably right that Fahreddin Acemi taught at Murad II 's Darulhadis , as will be shown , his construction of events-that Fahreddin Acemi taught there and then became Mufti on the death of Molla Fenari-is most unlikely since the Darulhadis of Murad II seems not to have been completed until 23 Sha'ban 838/24 March 1435 . |
| 24 | Niyazov had been leader of the republican Communist Party until it was dissolved at its 25th Congress on Dec. 16 , 1991 , and then became leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan . |
| 25 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 26 | This saint began his career in the court of Sigibert III ( 632 — c. 656 ) , and ultimately became prefect of Provence . |
| 27 | Last week DEC stopped flirting with Unix System Labs Inc 's transaction processor monitor , Tuxedo , and officially became part of ‘ the club , ’ a die-in-the-wool Tuxedo reseller in hot pursuit of the commercial user . |
| 28 | By 1873 there were some signed reviews , an adoption of the French practice , which seemed very odd to most Englishmen and never became general , here or elsewhere , in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | These too started as promises to exchange paper for gold , but soon became currency , a normal medium for exchange of goods and services . |
| 30 | The fabric , at first , was black plastic bags , but later became tent fabric , also from the attic . |