Example sentences of "became [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 2 | Only three other deaf men became missioners for the first time in the 1920s , although some moved from one place to another like George Mackenzie . |
| 3 | A further aspect is that with public attention focused firmly on the statistics of road accidents , many traffic issues became matters for the Police . |
| 4 | These in effect became ceilings for the whole pyramid of staff salaries so that those senior men below board level also found their salaries constrained . |
| 5 | THE Duke and Duchess of Kent became grandparents for the second time yesterday when the Earl of St Andrews and his wife had a baby girl . |
| 6 | Usually the priors became proctors for the king , paying over to him a farm ( or rent ) , but as these farms were based on a high assessment many houses or cells sold or leased their property in order to buy denization . |
| 7 | The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog , impassable except by a few well-defined tracks , which became marks for the enemy 's artillery . |
| 8 | which became bywords for the desecration of the countryside . |