Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was with Jesus : he scandalized people by the company he kept , by the overturning of values which had become the cement of his society but which he saw as being barriers for people . |
| 2 | Whatever its economic intent , the fact is that Mosley 's fascist movement became associated with the type of violence and anti-Semitism which had become the hallmark of European fascism . |
| 3 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | [ Hence ] the loyalty of the masses to a nation which had become the instrument of their collective interests and ambitions … . |
| 5 | Against this background the institutions which had become the responsibility of Bedfordshire County Council were under pressure which was reflected in the occupancy figures at St. Peter 's for July 1931 : |
| 6 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 7 | In their view the recently created Riverside DHA which had become the managing agency , was interested only in providing hospital services and had paid scant , if any , attention to the need for a range of after-care facilities across the statutory and non-statutory sectors . |
| 8 | The Roman Watling Street , which had become the London to Holyhead road , was vastly improved and largely remade by Telford between 1820 and 1828 . |
| 9 | Virgin had also bought a London cinema , the Scala , specialising in ‘ art house ’ films ; and a video-editing suite , called Off Line — both of which had become the particular interest of Nik Powell . |
| 10 | Yet we are still left with the impression that these two Greeks never quite understood what was really happening in the social organism which had become the guarantee of their own survival . |
| 11 | The Victorian drawing-room which had become the office of St Sylvester 's Betterhouse Retreat Centre came vividly before her . |
| 12 | But it was the Labour Party which had become the official Opposition in 1918 . |
| 13 | The turning point in what had become the War of American Independence came in October 1777 , when a British army under General Burgoyne suffered a spectacular defeat at Saratoga , 180 miles [ 288 km ] north of New York . |
| 14 | This love of secrecy may have been a reaction to the rapid expansion of Britain 's formal power towards the end of the nineteenth century , an attempt to preserve the spirit of the frontier and deny what had become the unexciting obviousness of British dominion . |
| 15 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 16 | The ‘ pressure ’ in these cases was both internal , with individuals feeling the need to conform to what had become the ‘ norm ’ in their social group , and also external , with individuals being urged to conform and , given the nature of heroin use , subsequently excluded from the group if they did not . |
| 17 | Only Greek imperial writers such as Plutarch and Appian accepted what had become the conventional literary description of the Carthaginians without reflecting that " Punica fides " had its counterpart in " Graeca fides " . |
| 18 | The kinship systems of Australian aborigines , Pacific islanders and Iroquois Indians , which the ancestors of modern social anthropology like Lewis Morgan(1818–81) now began to study seriously — though the subject was still primarily studied in the library rather than in the field — were seen as ‘ survivals ’ of earlier stages in the evolution of what had become the nineteenth-century family . |