Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | B. Sherman did some very clumsy checks — until those white with black/red/blue/green or yellow small checked shirts became part of the smooth uniform in 1971 . |
| 32 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 33 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 34 | Malenkov became Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , but he was challenged by both Marshall Bulgarin and Khrushchev , as effective leader . |
| 35 | In that year Bevin became Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dalton was made Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party . |
| 36 | Despite his lifelong friendship with Lord Home , McEwan Younger strongly supported Edward Heath 's new broom Conservatism in 1970 , and the next year became chairman of the Conservative party in Scotland . |
| 37 | Peter Brooke , who left the firm to enter politics in 1979 and became Chairman of the Conservative party , set up the firm 's British base in prestigious but not overtly showy offices in park Lane . |
| 38 | In 1910 , at the height of the New Theology controversy , Horne became chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales , his friendship with the chief protagonists preventing undue blood-letting . |
| 39 | Later he became chairman of the orchestral committee for the Leeds music festival . |
| 40 | Also in that year , Ernest Bevin became the Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dr Hugh Dalton became Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party . |
| 41 | In 1915 he became chairman of the advisory council of British Dyes Ltd . |
| 42 | When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do . |
| 43 | The orchards yielded plums , pears and apples ; bees occupying the hives set amongst the trees produced honey with the extra aid of the herbs flowering in beds along the walls ; and above all careful gardening provided a wealth of vegetables unknown to the herb growers of previous centuries . |
| 44 | Long hours of standing over benches by the lock makers got part of the Black Country known as " Humpshire " . |
| 45 | In addition , he lacked experience in the vital sphere of foreign affairs . |
| 46 | Her wet boots made footprints on the dusty floor and she still wore an apron over her black skirt , but she had a fine air about her . |
| 47 | I slanted west through the pretty East Side , with its decorative dustbins , the paunchy awnings of the low-slung stores , the smell of dark hot trash , and dined blind with Fielding Goodney and Doris Arthur in a loud and airless media restaurant just five blocks from bubbling Harlem . |
| 48 | where they sold copies of The Red Letter , |
| 49 | There is a growing awareness of the disadvantages to employment and industry that a return to the discredited and failed policies of the Labour party would create . |
| 50 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 51 | It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union . |
| 52 | The legislation made provision for the compulsory purchase of 5,500,000 hectares of predominantly white-owned land earmarked for redistribution to black families . |
| 53 | In 1988 , amidst a great burst of publicity , one forestry company announced plans for the future management and improvement of a river they owned . |
| 54 | Although Turner made inroads into the white vote , it appeared that his failure to attract more than 37 per cent of the Hispanic vote resulted in his defeat . |
| 55 | He also had a keen grasp of steam locomotive matters and was responsible for introducing suburban passenger locomotives in 1945 , in which year he also made proposals for the first LMS ( and British ) main-line diesel-electric locomotives , which were finally introduced under his successor H. G. Ivatt two years later . |
| 56 | ‘ Everyone made money on the immigrant worker — from the big-time capitalist to the slum landlord — from exploiting his colour , his customs , his culture . |
| 57 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 58 | She was privately educated , then went to Edinburgh University and passed part of the preliminary examination in medicine . |
| 59 | The second trend produced change in the postcranial anatomy , leading to functional complexes similar to those of living great apes , but there was less change in the skull and particularly the teeth . |
| 60 | Until vernacular opera made progress during the second half of the eighteenth century , ‘ opera ’ was almost synonymous with Italian opera from one end of Europe to the other . |