Example sentences of "became [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The issue of language symbolized and condensed the anxiety provoked by the black presence and became the preferred site for an educational response . |
2 | In 1878 he became the joint winner in Birmingham of a handicap walking race over a mile with a 45-yard handicap . |
3 | Just which aircraft became the famous Faith , Hope and Charity — if ever they were marked as such — is unclear . |
4 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
5 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
6 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
7 | In East Anglia , Colchester became the Roman Army Headquarters and later an important civil town . |
8 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
9 | With the unforeseen addition of partly suspended sentences when the Bill reached the Commons , the resulting measure became the Criminal Law Act 1977 , finally amounting to sixty-five sections and fourteen schedules . |
10 | What became the Criminal Justice Act of 1961 was a relatively short statute of forty-five sections and six schedules , with more of a coherent theme than is usually found in comparable legislation . |
11 | They both refused and sat down as Evelyn became the welcoming host . |
12 | After his release he lived in Kent , preaching regularly in Rochester Cathedral and laying the foundations for what became the Quaker community there . |
13 | OLD Kingstonians and Brooklands became the final qualifiers for next year 's Pizza Express National League , winning their play-off matches yesterday to earn places in the Second Division . |
14 | Ptah was an important god from the First Dynasty , when Memphis became the administrative capital of Egypt . |
15 | However , the large number of castles erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ( Fig. 12 ) and the hundreds of new monasteries founded during the same period also became the administrative centres of their estates , even if only for brief periods . |
16 | The potatoes were then regularly placed on the beach which now became the normal habitat for the macaques . |
17 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
18 | Circular kilns first appeared in Kent around 1805 and soon became the normal pattern there . |
19 | In securing huge government land grants as an inducement to build , the railways became the prime engine of migration , transporting the migrants , acting as land agents , supplying their machinery , building materials , and seed , and later shipping ( a word which developed land-bound connotations ) their produce . |
20 | Removal of this national vulnerability and dependence on other nations became the prime aim , and so compelling an aim was it that it came to be achieved by fair means or foul . |
21 | They hurled stones , and thereafter stones — in place of the Kalashnikov — became the prime weapon and symbol of the ‘ blessed ’ Intifada which has transformed the whole nature of the Arab- |
22 | Larry and the other pocket knife owner became the prime suspects and it got quite ugly with such suggestions as , ‘ why do n't you admit it , you know you did it ’ . |
23 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
24 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
25 | Remaisnil became the staged version of her perfected life , the culmination of the myth which was such a potent force for customer and company alike and without which the art could not flourish . |
26 | This boy became the Dutch poet , Ed Hoornik . |
27 | In the fifteenth century the Italian humanists introduced considerable refinement , the ‘ humanistic minuscule ’ was gradually adopted throughout the Christian world , and became the cursive hand which was eventually termed ‘ italic ’ . |
28 | It was Matilda , the only offspring of this marriage , who in 1181–2 became the unwitting cause of what the chronicler of the Limousin , Geoffrey de Vigeois , called " a great calamity for our country " . |
29 | And MS-DOS swiftly became the standard operating system for PCs . |
30 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |