Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] became a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1881 , when Brunner , Mond & Co. became a public company , he invested in it , became its first chairman , and remained a director until his death . |
| 2 | He also pursued finance , and in 1848 helped reorganize the banking firm of Magniac , Jardine , which as Matheson & Company became a financial giant in the City , and within which he became ‘ Uncle James ’ . |
| 3 | Placemen were seldom independent of party , since the bestowal of government favours or jobs became a way through which the governing party of the day was able to reward its followers . |
| 4 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 5 | Bishop and priests left , and Clonmacnoise became a ruin , used only as a burial ground for those who held the site forever sacred . |
| 6 | Not only did the domestic rates disappear ( see below ) but the non-domestic rates levied on shops , offices and industry became a national tax , determined by , and collected by , central government . |
| 7 | Paul took up the drums , Steve sang and Wally became a guitarist , not a bad one either , very much in the Ron Wood school . |
| 8 | But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack . |
| 9 | As Joe and Biddy became a little more cheerful , discussing my possible plans for the future , I became more miserable . |
| 10 | The postwar expansion in the book market allowed for a wider distribution ( with paper covers , at lower prices ) and books became a commodity to which the newly developed sales techniques and marketing methods could be applied . |
| 11 | With class war anaesthetized by the Cold War and affluence , the generation gap and teenagers became a subject for serious observation . |
| 12 | This month HIV and AIDS became a statutory part of the national curriculum and now schools have to teach it . |
| 13 | But this holistic view was lost , and architecture became a series of isolated statements . |
| 14 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 15 | But times changed : theatres became offices and Ruth became a typist . |
| 16 | Abortion was legalised , divorce was made simple and marriage became a civil , non-religious affair . |
| 17 | Aromatic bathing and massage became a nightly ritual which had to be carried out before Owen would go to bed . |
| 18 | The lone worker and thinker became a rarity . |
| 19 | In the late 1060s and 1070s Hildebrand , later Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) , gave more consistent support to the last and most effective of the Patarine leaders , Erlembald , a noble demagogue ; and Milan became a theatre of war between the pope and the Emperor Henry IV . |
| 20 | In fact , so accomplished had he become that he changed his career from lorry driver to architectural joiner , and kitchens became a part of his stock in trade . |
| 21 | And Di became a virtual recluse . |
| 22 | The first dated coin was issued by Valdemar II of Denmark in 1234 , but this is an isolated and untypical example , and dates became a frequent part of the design only from the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | Supermice have been grown , injected with rat growth hormone ; and similar transfer of human genes , for quick growth , to cattle , sheep and pigs became a possibility . |
| 24 | His continued scepticism about 's various proposals for innovation in nuclear weaponry and strategy became a legend ; was a friend he never made . |
| 25 | This pair was supplanted by Jesus and Judas Thomas , and Edessa became a centre for the new cult of the twin Messiahs . |
| 26 | Perhaps , after all , anguish died with time , and life became a simple matter of bills and procreation and sometimes going to parties . |
| 27 | God formed man from the dust of the ground , says the book of Genesis , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life , and man became a living soul . |
| 28 | Four years later , much as Edouard had predicted , Charles de Gaulle ended the strife in Algeria , the majority of the French left , and Algeria became a free state . |
| 29 | The Anglo Japanese Alliance was allowed to lapse , and Japan became a signatory to two multilateral pacts relating to East Asian affairs . |
| 30 | After Simmons 's departure in 1934 the situation deteriorated and escapes became a major problem , to such an extent that a most unusual political event occurred . |