Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] became [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Anne Wright recently became Sunderland Polytechnic 's first woman chief executive , only the second woman in the UK to head a polytechnic . |
| 2 | It was in Aden that the alternative solution was found , and Paul Nizan finally became Paul Nizan . |
| 3 | Turner nearly became Mr Big at Barnet a couple of years ago when he fronted a consortium negotiating to buy the club from chairman Stan Flash-man . |
| 4 | However hard she had to fight , she would make certain that Janice never became Kirsty 's mother ! |
| 5 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |
| 6 | Two of Sancton 's early dissenters earned the highest honour which Methodism has to confer on its preachers : Thomas and Samuel Jackson both became presidents of the Wesleyan Conference . |
| 7 | Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation . |
| 8 | In East Anglia , where Beonna probably became king c . |
| 9 | The production of Le nozze di Figaro which Gründgens did earlier with Klemperer in 1931 was said to be politically very radical , yet Gründgens later became Intendant of Berlin 's Staatliches Schauspielhaus , with Goering 's support . |
| 10 | As well as rehearsing the Girls Jessie Wharton now became companion to Mrs Tiller . |
| 11 | Swire was delighted when Bevin subsequently became wartime minister of labour . |
| 12 | Although he deliberately affected a republican stance , in 27 BC Octavian effectively became emperor of Rome , taking the name Augustus . |
| 13 | Having led the Arab revolt , Faysal briefly became King of Syria before French forces expelled him in July 1920 . |
| 14 | The bar was patented and Nelson duly became president of the Eskimo Pie Corporation . |
| 15 | Samuel Richardson eventually became Duck 's authorized publisher , not to mention Leapor 's . |
| 16 | When , in 1975 , PNG won its independence from Australia ( which had been running the place since 1949 ) , Bougainville formally became part of the new country . |
| 17 | LENNOX LEWIS yesterday became Britain 's first heavyweight champion this century — without throwing a punch . |
| 18 | The LNI stopped operations in the 1970s , and James and Sir Peter both became patrons of the present project . |
| 19 | Thomas of Sandwich subsequently became mayor of Bordeaux in 1289 , and became embroiled in a dispute with the burgesses which led to an appeal to the Parlement of Paris ; his place as seneschal of Ponthieu was taken by Richard de Pevensey . |
| 20 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 21 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
| 22 | Boxgrove Priory , with its de la Warr chantry , survived as a noble parish church , but many lesser buildings in Sussex either became manor houses , as at Michelham , or storehouses , as in Rye . |
| 23 | Unlike its contemporary , Queen 's College , Bedford later became part of the University of London , and among its first outstanding students were Barbara Bodichon and George Eliot [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Bernard and Laura nearly became victims of their own success at this point ; with the great increase in turnover ( sales were by this time around £100,000 a year ) , the company was falling into the near inevitable trap of a young , fast-growing business . |
| 25 | Politically its another matter of course … pretty much the same as if Wales suddenly became independant — politically it would nt be UK , but I do nt think they would suddenly lose that British sense of humour . |
| 26 | The adjustment was made more difficult by the fact that Vietnam also became part of Cold War tensions : the Chinese Communists , who triumphed in their own country in 1949 , gave aid to Ho Chi Minh , and the following year the Americans extended aid to the French . |
| 27 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 28 | As constitutional head of the new state , Arden-Clarke briefly became Governor-General until Lord Listowel ( former Secretary of State for India and Burma ) arrived . |
| 29 | Robyn arrived at Luke 's later than she had expected — far later — flustered and hot from busy traffic and wrongly taken turns , tense as the prospect of seeing Luke again became reality . |