Example sentences of "became the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became the standard Soviet line that an arrangement on the Gulf could be discussed ‘ in connection with questions linked with Afghanistan ’ . |
| 2 | It was taken up by the Hellenistic astronomers , became the standard astronomical system of reference in the Middle Ages , and was even used by Copernicus in his lunar and planetary tables . |
| 3 | Over the years , it became the standard public order offence . |
| 4 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 5 | For many it became the supreme moral issue of their time . |
| 6 | Nathan Marcus Adler [ q.v. ] , the ‘ chief rabbi ’ , became the supreme ecclesiastical authority of this body ; ministers of its constituent synagogues were not intended to be rabbinical authorities , but merely preachers and pastors . |
| 7 | Docklands Express , which will be ridden by the champion jockey , Peter Scudamore , became the Grand National favourite at 8–1 after Adrian Maguire , 20 , broke his shoulder in a fall yesterday and lost his ride on Cool Ground , which drifted to 9–1 . |
| 8 | After retiring from sport , he became the Jamaican High Commissioner in London . |
| 9 | The Unionist Party became the central political organization of the protestant — loyalist alliance . |
| 10 | The early 1980s was a time of immense fertility for blacks in sport : as well as their presence in athletics , boxing and soccer , Desmond Douglas established himself as the top table tennis player in the UK , ; Eugene Codrington consolidated his captaincy of the British karate team ( composed mainly of other blacks ) and Roland Butcher became the second black player to play for an MCC touring side ( the first being Basil D'Oliviera of South Africa ) . |
| 11 | Aberdeen had , at that point , been slow to regain the composure shown before Eadie 's involvement and this was illustrated when Aitken became the second experienced player to be booked . |
| 12 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 13 | On March 1 the Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , after 23 years of clandestine struggle , became the second major guerrilla group to lay down arms and enter political life as a party , formally changing its name to the Hope , Peace and Liberty party ( with the same Spanish acronym , EPL ) . |
| 14 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 15 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |
| 16 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 17 | Latvia thus became the second ex-Soviet republic ( following Estonia ) to replace the rouble with its own currency . |
| 18 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , in Belfast , became the second leading Belfast hotel to feel the wrath of the bombers within four days . |
| 19 | The second half produced any amount of action , including five goals , three of them to Chorley , before their striker Bernie Taylor had to be stretchered off following a tackle from Kath Townley , who became the second United player to be dismissed . |
| 20 | It was certainly far being in evidence in 1992 , the season that the Fighting Irish of old became the Docile Irish . |
| 21 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
| 22 | The Military Council , however , became the effective ruling body , advising the King ( currently King Moshoeshoe II ) and appointing the Council of Ministers . |
| 23 | The Military Council , however , became the effective ruling body , advising the King and appointing the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | It then became the USAC National Championship and since 1979 , following the formation of CART , the CART National Championship . |
| 25 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 26 | In June 1988 , James Hansen became the first prominent atmospheric scientist to tell governments that the greenhouse effect had been confirmed ‘ with about 99 per cent confidence ’ ( Hansen et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 28 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 29 | September 1991 : HCIMA Greece became the first European Chapter to be inaugurated , by Director at a gathering in Athens , attended by 120 senior members of Greece 's hotel and catering and tourism industries . |
| 30 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |