Example sentences of "[noun sg] become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities . |
| 2 | Champagne became the sole refreshment , and topless girls sported trays of Havana cigars and hashish cigarettes . |
| 3 | Such dreary teaching could be eliminated if literature were separated from language , theory from practice , and literature became the chosen subject only for those who had a particular aptitude for it , or a desire to learn to criticize and analyse . |
| 4 | For magazines such as the Illustrated London News the solution was to bolt a number of small blocks together ; but for full-page scientific pictures the technique of lithography became the standard one . |
| 5 | As Julian Leff points out : ‘ it seems likely that if the uniqueness of the individual 's inner experience became the dominant value in society , the bonds between people would be so attenuated that such a society would probably not be viable . ’ |
| 6 | No major developments in military technology occurred but , significantly , in 1704 pikes were finally phased out , and in 1706 a musket and socket-bayonet became the standard small-arm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage . |
| 9 | Football became the single most important focus for this . |
| 10 | ANYTHING you can do … seven weeks after a Coventry Courtaulds employee became the proud father of quads a colleague in Grimsby went two better by becoming dad to sextuplets . |
| 11 | Eventually the British Standards Institution became the official English editorial body ; the publication of the full English edition , which was long overdue , began with the fourth edition in 1943 . |
| 12 | The Orthopaedic Institution became the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in 1845 , but Little had resigned in 1844 . |
| 13 | In some stations the train-shed became the central feature , an eye-catching shape dwarfing an insignificant frontage : thus , for instance Manchester Central ( 1880 ) , 210 ft. , and Liverpool Central ( 1874 ) , 169 ft . |
| 14 | With the last fortnight the club became the proud holders of the Irish Youths ' ( under-21 ) championship . |
| 15 | The third defendant became the managing director of C.M.C. at or soon after its incorporation . |
| 16 | Survey research became the paradigmatical method of sociology . |
| 17 | It must in effect become the actual embodiment of the idealized , phantasied parent of early childhood , the parent who is omnipresently nurturing , omnisciently caring and omnipotently protecting . |
| 18 | Typology becomes the primary means of identifying cultures and of dating them . |
| 19 | If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants . |
| 20 | On this occasion , however , the hunter becomes the hunted . |
| 21 | If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code . |
| 22 | The grotesque becomes the sublime in Peter Howson 's paintings . |
| 23 | The grotesque becomes the sublime in Peter Howson 's paintings . |
| 24 | McCarthy 's bid to become the Democratic nominee for president was getting up steam , and his following included the liberal Hollywood establishment , among them Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Robert Redford and Warren Beatty . |
| 25 | Indonesia 's ambition to become the top paper-producing nation is leading to some of the earth 's finest forests being felled , according to a report from an international environmental group , Down to Earth . |
| 26 | He quickly established its critical reputation and the Institute became the focal point of specialist dissent from the official line . |
| 27 | The simple truth is that for the duration of the tours rugby became the political football in the power-broking struggle currently being played out between the various factions in South African politics . |
| 28 | After 1945 this philosophy became the conventional wisdom and governments accepted that they had a responsibility for macroeconomic management , predominantly through their own fiscal position . |
| 29 | Accordingly , manpower budgeting became the central task of wartime planning . |
| 30 | , national accounts controller became the proud father of a son , on . |