Example sentences of "[noun prp] become [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 2 | 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an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 3 | In another telling episode from The Faerie Queene , Spenser reveals how the savage in Ireland becomes equated with the uncontrolled aspects of the individual . |
| 4 | Snow had started to block all roads north on the morning we left , and as the last car slithered into the driveway of the cottage , with its white-faced traumatised occupants , Torridon became sealed from the outside world in a spectacular blizzard . |
| 5 | During that period the great schism within Islam between sunni and shi'ite occurred , in which Egypt became associated with the former , as it has remained ever since . |
| 6 | The Goths , the Avars , the Lombards , the Huns , the Franks became absorbed in the Romanised populations they dominated . |
| 7 | Through a project begun by West Yorkshire Archaeological Unit , Tony became connected with the Holy Wells Research and Preservation Group , and from there came the inspiration to revive a local tradition he had heard tales about since his childhood . |