Example sentences of "became the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others suggest that the first Hereford ancestor was a cow called Silver who , with her calf , was bequeathed to Benjamin Tomkins by his father Richard in 1720 , and indeed Benjamin 's son , Benjamin the younger , became the great improver of the breed in the 1760s . |
| 2 | It became the Great Depression as successive waves of bank failures rolled over America 's monetary system . |
| 3 | The city became the great center of the mass movements of the industrial age , the breeding ground of nationalist and socialist doctrines , of new religious sects , temperance societies , reform movements , and revolutionary associations . |
| 4 | Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become . |
| 5 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 6 | Pasteur was drawn into the field of bacteriology , of which he became the great pioneer ( together with Robert Koch [ 1843–1910 ] , a German country doctor ) , through industrial chemistry , more precisely the analysis of why beer and vinegar sometimes go bad , for reasons which chemical analysis could not reveal . |
| 7 | Tax became the great argument at the election , he says , because Mr Smith excluded all other economic ones . |