Example sentences of "became [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 2 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 3 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 4 | Instead , it became possible for the Poles to compete on the open market and to bid against the Commission with capital made available by the Polish banks . |
| 5 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 6 | In other words , it became possible for the intensity of development to be determined in advance by a local authority . |
| 7 | Real power remained in the hands of the union delegations but it now became possible for the local parties to ensure that their opinions were more effectively voiced . |
| 8 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 9 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 10 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 11 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 12 | Carrie could hear his cooing to the child and the answering wail of discomfort and her face became serious for a moment or two . |
| 13 | ‘ Still the guns churned this treacherous slime , the surplus water poured into the trenches as its natural outlet , and they became impossible for the troops … men staggered warily over duckboards . |
| 14 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 15 | In the adjusted analysis subfertility of the partner became indicative for the fertility of the woman because of the fact that within this subgroup women with lower fertility are over-represented among those entering a donor insemination programme . |
| 16 | It was a joke , but Zurachina 's face became thoughtful for a moment . |
| 17 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
| 18 | In default of this being taken up , however , it became lawful for the mineral or metal to be disposed of as convenient . |
| 19 | It became imperative for the new latitudinarian archbishops to avoid countenancing the view that the Revolution was a victory for the intolerant Anglicanism of Sancroft 's and Proast 's type . |
| 20 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 21 | The battalion became famous for a skilful defence of the Cerro Mala Cara carried out in February 1982 , when the combined forces of the US-trained army battalions , the " Ramon Belloso " and the " Atlacail " were forced into retreat : |
| 22 | Her ambition to be a painter was thwarted by acute shortness of sight which made her turn to gardening , ‘ making pictures with living plants ’ to use her own words ; and she became famous for the gardens she created and the books she wrote . |
| 23 | With the exhibition of Johannes Heisig , Tammen & Busch present a prominent young representative of the Leipzig School of painters , which became famous for the dissolution of figuration into shimmering points of colour . |
| 24 | The campaigns were not only successful politically , but they also became famous for the deeds of prowess and valour done by the leaders of the English forces and the booty and ransoms they won . |
| 25 | During the treason trials Tixier-Vignancour became notorious for a tactic known as ‘ the defence of blackmail ’ when he repeatedly threatened to call eminent witnesses such as General de Gaulle and the Prime Minister Michel Debre , hinting that they too were involved in criminal plots . |
| 26 | Christ 's birthday only became important for the Church when infant baptism replaced adult baptism . |
| 27 | The concepts of self-referentialism , strangeness and improbability , all central to Magritte 's paintings , were easily adapted and assimilated into his advertising , and again became important for the development of the genre . |
| 28 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 29 | Significantly , he also became responsible for the development of the Board 's Chapter III provision in rural areas . |
| 30 | Telford , though not sacked , disappeared from the project and Benjamin Bevan , one of the Grand Junction 's own engineers , at first nominally in tandem with Telford , became responsible for the later development . |