Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 2 | Later , Valencia came to dominate as the major lustreware centre . |
| 3 | Within four years of his return , Nkrumah had emerged as the acknowledged national leader whose stature required a rapid acceleration in the political process . |
| 4 | By announcing America 's ‘ preparedness ’ to intervene in the European conflict , while maintaining her neutrality between the combatants , Wilson had emerged as the main hope for peace in Europe . |
| 5 | We have seen that this strategy had addressed the relation between certain population habits ( what Farr had defined as the vital statistics of marriage and divorce , fertility and fecundity ) and the nation 's economic prosperity , health and happiness . |
| 6 | By this time , Edinburgh had emerged as the recognized centre of " the Female Question " ( as it is always known in the union literature ) . |
| 7 | What Dudley had dismissed as the faceless commonalty Smith perceived as three distinct status groups , and accordingly found space to comment on each . |