Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] became [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite 300 years of conflict , the Merovingian kings and their Mayors ( who eventually became the Frankish kings in their own right ) had found it impossible to subdue the Saxons on any permanent basis . |
| 2 | The ‘ type of lad ’ who once became an apprentice now goes on to take an engineering degree and is replaced at that qualification level by a different category of young person . |
| 3 | Walden , who also became a Northamptonshire County cricketer , went on to play for Tottenham . |
| 4 | Rhoda had a brother called Tom , a very pleasant young man who also became a preacher , but not for long because , unfortunately , he died young . |
| 5 | Ram deities included Herishef of Heracleopolis , who temporarily became a state god in the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties , and Khnum of Elephantine , the creator with his potter 's wheel . |
| 6 | At lunchtime she was taken across the road to the paper 's local , The Cross Keys , to meet the gang , at which initiation she remembered in particular a short , genial , Punch-like ‘ ex-RAF type ’ ( as he liked to call himself ) named Arthur Eperon , who later became a well-known travel writer . |
| 7 | Marie Stopes , who later became a famous pioneer of birth control started life as a palaeobotanist interested in the cycads . |
| 8 | His old classmate , Gil Kenny , who later became a local police chief , said no one thought Jack would set the world alight . |
| 9 | In the early summer of 1965 , in the short lull between the Commons debate and the issuing of Circular 10/65 , I enjoyed an hour in the early evening drinking a pint of beer alongside the Thames with one of the senior educational administrators of Oxfordshire , who later became a Chief Education Officer himself . |
| 10 | Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’ |
| 11 | Taken c.1891 it includes Bessie Cohen ( second right ) who later became a successful Music Hall soloist |
| 12 | Victor Matterface , the Brakes Inspector of the Metropolitan tramways , who later became a well-known Tramway Engineer elsewhere , describes how he was called on to visit South Metropolitan depôts as well as in the 1920's . |
| 13 | Mr Sijaona , an influential and outspoken backbencher who later became a minister , said this in 1961 , and it was a theme taken up by others on a number of occasions : |
| 14 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 15 | It is worthy of notice that one of the owners of the Van Lead Mines , which gave rise to the railway , was William Lefaux , who later became a director of the BCR . |
| 16 | ( It was Peter , a former Newcastle player who later became an Arsenal scout . ) |
| 17 | Picton-Howell , who later became an editorial researcher , now bombarded Jackson with demands about maternity leave , paternity leave , day-nursery facilities and more mundane and familiar matters such as car mileage allowance and overtime payments . |
| 18 | The first gallery to emerge after the war was Galerie Der Spiegel , founded in 1945 by Hein and Eva Stünke , who later became an intermittent director of Documenta , and in 1967 established the Cologne Art Fair . |
| 19 | She was very attached to her brother Joshua Cristall [ q.v. ] , who later became an eminent water-colourist : ‘ They studied together as children , and hand in hand did they daily walk to London for their schooling when the family lived at Rotherhithe ’ ( J. L. Roget ) . |
| 20 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 21 | Richard Ogden was working on the Motors with a lawyer in New York , Charles Levison , who later became the managing director of Arista records in the UK and managing director of Warner Brothers . |
| 22 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 23 | Henry , who later became the amiable vicar of Cannington , was never a likely recruit to idealistic schemes for emigration . |
| 24 | It was not ‘ otium cum indignitate , ’ for who should have an even smaller room over mine , known as the horse boxes , but Mr William Gilliat , who later became the royal gynaecologist , and brought the Prince of Wales into this world . |
| 25 | Through influential friends , he was made a member of the Society of the Middle Temple in 1820 , and placed in the office of two eminent solicitors , a Mr. Justice Patterson , and a Sir Nicholas Tindal who later became the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . |
| 26 | The four arms of the cross are known as ‘ the four arms of Vishnu ’ , the Supreme Deity in Vedic times who later became the preserver and supporter of life in the Hindu Trinity and can be equated with the ‘ Holy Ghost ’ or Mother in Christianity . |
| 27 | The new reached Sweden and John Tanberg , who later became the scientific director and manager of Electrolux , the world-famous manufacturer of household appliances . |
| 28 | The subject of the letter was Matilda , the daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland , who later became the wife of Henry I and queen of England . |
| 29 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 30 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |