Example sentences of "[subord] it became [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a canny tyke , he was n't about to spend his brass on paint , so it became G-EFTE , passing into the hands of present owner Nigel Heaton in late 1991 , after he in turn had sold his beloved Jodel . |
| 2 | Bush had consistently claimed that , as Vice-President in the Reagan administration , he was " out of the loop " and knew very little of the Iran-contra operation until it became public . |
| 3 | STEVEN has followed the rise of the drug in the North East since it became part of the club scene in 1989 he says its popularity has soared since 1991 . |
| 4 | But it WAS clearly written by someone with an intimate knowledge of the royal marriage crisis before it became public in Andrew Morton 's controversial book . |
| 5 | Bush , who was Vice-President at the time of the operation , and Gates , who was deputy director of the CIA , had both denied any knowledge of the operation until shortly before it became public in November 1986 . |
| 6 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |
| 7 | Central principal John Dornan said details of the report were known to school management months before it became public — and a recent re-inspection is expected to show the school has made ‘ significant improvements ’ . |
| 8 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 9 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 10 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 11 | The statio was closed to BR trains when it became part of Tyne & Wear Metro system . |
| 12 | When it became light , waves of Chinese came across the river . |
| 13 | The mighty Grand Hotel of 1863 and the rows of Victorian terraces tell of a different type of resort when it became Yorkshire 's equivalent to Lancashire 's Blackpool . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly , many members of the English political nation viewed the prospect of a reunion with Rome with grave misgivings , and when it became reality it was far from popular . |
| 15 | Despite the obvious satisfaction with which he carries out his work , Keith admits , when it became time , he did n't have much of a say in choosing a career in the RAF . |