Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] became [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusal in payment , forgery or any other misuse thereby became treason or sacrilege and attracted savage penalties . |
| 2 | These companies in practice then became part of a national cartel . |
| 3 | The SEATO Pact effectively became moribund in the wake of the American military withdrawal from Indo-China in the mid 1970s , and was not reinvigorated . |
| 4 | Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer . |
| 5 | Two of the sons of that marriage also became doctors , Thomas and Charles , and it was under their supervision that the asylum was moved from Manor Farm House to Chiswick House in 1893 , where it remained until 1929 . |
| 6 | That would have to stop if a draft EC directive ever became law ; Norway would not be allowed to keep so much to itself . |
| 7 | The Manager , Mr. Ratcliffe Hulme , resigned and was replaced in July , by A. V. Mason from Devonport , who became Manager and Engineer of the S.M.E.T. C. W. Durnford , the S.M.E.T. Engineer then became Manager at Devonport . |
| 8 | The Committee , with the support of the Resource Planning & Finance Committee , initiated a twelve-month pilot scheme whereby upon payment of a lump sum by the student society , all students at the School of Architecture , De Montfort University automatically became student members of the RIBA . |
| 9 | After independence in Nigeria , for example , political conflict soon became conflict between sectional groups mobilized to support the political wings of the bourgeoisie who were in competition for the spoils of office . |
| 10 | Lord Buckhurst even tried to argue , rather implausibly , that a patent of office quam diu se bene gesserit automatically became void on the misbehaviour of the holder , and that therefore this type of tenure was less secure than durante bene placito . |
| 11 | The Breton later became part originator of the Canadian breed , so that it is possible that the genes of the extinct small Cornish cattle are perpetuated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 12 | An adoption bill eventually became law two years later , in 1952 , under the next administration . |
| 13 | Clause 54 of the Bill eventually became section 63 of the Act of 1976 . |
| 14 | .. all of a sudden I felt a terrible wind blowing , the earth began to tremble , and the sky suddenly became dark . |
| 15 | Nationalism now became imperialism . |
| 16 | The firm then became Peter and Charles Playne . |
| 17 | After unification the capital officially became Berlin again , as Article 2 of the Unification Treaty stipulates ; however , the Bundestag and German public opinion subsequently agonised for nine months before taking the decision , on 20 June 1991 , to move the government back to Berlin . |
| 18 | Assumptions about the bureaucracy based on the significance of the ‘ over-developed ’ state therefore became suspect . |
| 19 | Because of the interests of the researchers who were appointed , the " networking " aspect soon became subsidiary to the main aim of working towards effective JR systems for untrained , non-dedicated users . |
| 20 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 21 | Cities naturally grew up next to the tracks and railway land thus became Canada 's prime real estate . |
| 22 | Abuja formally became Nigeria 's federal capital on Dec. 12 , following a decree by Babangida . |
| 23 | From the late 1920s , depression rapidly became crisis . |
| 24 | By 1910 he was outdoor goods manager for the large southern division of the L&NWR and a year later became assistant to the general manager , Sir Frank Ree . |
| 25 | but er , under the nineteen forty four Act , Rentham Senior School then became Rentham Modern School and we thought we thought that the silly term to go to a school which in nineteen twenty six had been er |
| 26 | The discussion then became general after which both leaders replied , the vote was taken when eleven voted for negative and eight for affirmative . |
| 27 | Some would read significance into an incident in which the best educated director of one licensed dealer suddenly became history . |
| 28 | During the inter-war years attention shifted from the physical development of both infant and potential mother to the psychological needs of the child , whose satisfaction immediately became part of the prescribed duties of mothers . |