Example sentences of "[vb past] become [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1960 , power stations had become the largest single source . |
| 2 | They had become the largest property owners in North America and beyond that , the world . |
| 3 | By the 1870s Cardiff had become the largest town in Wales and the marquess was being hailed as its ‘ creator ’ . |
| 4 | The DNSF , the party of President Iliescu , had become the largest parliamentary party in the September elections [ see pp. 39104 ; 39150-51 ] . |
| 5 | Thirty years earlier Guinness had become the largest brewers in Ireland . |
| 6 | Nicholson , Fonda and Hopper had become the best of friends . |
| 7 | Since she had grown up , they had become the best of buddies . |
| 8 | In 1992 the two countries had agreed to exchange Bank of China and Korean Exchange Bank officials and , in April , Lee Sang Ock had become the highest-ranking South Korean to visit China when he attended a meeting of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Beijing . |
| 9 | To replenish the nursing stock the NHS had become the biggest public sector recruiter of qualified labour , taking one in three of female school leavers with between five " O " levels or GCSEs and two " A " levels . |
| 10 | Crosby reacted after Steve Coppell had become the latest name to be linked with the Roker Park job . |
| 11 | Yesterday , PC John Jobson , 33 , told how he had become the latest statistic in the soaring number of knife-related offences . |
| 12 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |