Example sentences of "[vb past] become a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This issue was first raised as early as 1941 , and by 1943–4 had become a subject of major concern for the British government , aware that unless rules were laid down in advance , the United States would use its enormous wealth , undamaged industrial capability , and the advantages obtained during the war years to drive Britain and other countries off the international air routes . |
| 2 | Matthew Glynn had become a subject : ‘ Caucasian male , aged fifty-two … |
| 3 | In 1789 Moorcroft , of Russell Court , Half Moon Street , surgeon , had become a member of the future Royal Society of Arts . |
| 4 | The Commission stated in limine that in 1983 , before Spain had become a member of the Community , the United Kingdom had not taken appropriate measures to exclude ‘ Anglo-Spanish ’ vessels from its fishing fleet , apparently because those vessels fished mainly in areas to the west of Ireland and mostly for species ( such as hake ) for which there was a much better market in Spain than in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | By 1652 he had become a member of a syndicate engaged in victualling the navy . |
| 6 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 7 | The election was banned in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic ( an Azerbaijani enclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenian land ) by its Supreme Soviet which was headed by Geydar Aliyev , a former CPSU politburo member [ see p. 36592 ] who had become a member of the Azerbaijani People 's Front . |
| 8 | ( The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had become a member on April 7 , 1948 , but had for many years maintained only token participation in the organization . ) |
| 9 | Right-wing UNO parties had consistently demanded Ortega 's dismissal , especially since he had become a mainstay of the government . |
| 10 | A few years ago , he said , he met an old friend who had become a policeman . |
| 11 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 12 | There , research into the antecedents of the Al Fayeds had become a cottage industry . |
| 13 | Part of the ground floor had become a dress shop . |
| 14 | Wherever Jews were to be found — whether in the Holy Land or in the far-flung Diaspora — his name had become a household word as one of the select band of zealots whose spirit had never relinquished the hope of one day setting up a Jewish state in Palestine . |
| 15 | ‘ But he had started to drink heavily in recent months and Bernard felt he had become a liability . |
| 16 | His departure was recognition that his unpopularity had become a liability for the Conservatives in an election year . |
| 17 | Brian Mulroney : unpopularity had become a liability for Conservatives |
| 18 | Nicaragua had become a second Cuba , and the President had ordered an invasion . |
| 19 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 20 | She gave a glowing report of your work and said you had become a Christian . |
| 21 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 22 | At the speechifying , Darlington Temps boasted that the Highland Laddie had become a temperance hall ; the Royal Oak a bootmaker 's ; the Dun Cow a solicitor 's office and the Talbot a shoe emporium . |
| 23 | Although I recognized the same black fire in his eyes , the farm boy had become a gentleman . |
| 24 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 25 | By the time Rune had unclothed her completely Gina 's whole body knew the intimate touch of his mouth and hands and had become a conflagration of need for the ultimate knowledge of the man himself . |
| 26 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 27 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 28 | The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before . |
| 29 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 30 | The 1770s house had become a boarding house and the eighteenth-century garden paved over as the city bus station . |