Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] become [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were , nonetheless , women who managed to become well-educated . |
| 2 | The technical pensions literature of the early 1960s advised employers to leave women out of pension schemes and give ex gratia ( unfunded ) pensions to that dwindling minority of single women who did become long-serving employees ( Pilch and Wood , 1960 , p. 80 ) . |
| 3 | There , I myself had been a giant , an important person who had become famous for helping the people of that small country . |
| 4 | The building was ready for occupation in October 1928 and the labour master , who had become porter-and-gardener combined , and his wife , the labour mistress , moved in . |
| 5 | Lord Ashfield remained Chairman and Frank Pick , who had become Managing Director of the Group in March 1928 , became Deputy Chairman . |
| 6 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 7 | In speaking of an ‘ intelligent ’ [ sic ] man who had become disabled , Mr. Edwards stated : ‘ There was no way he would have fitted into one of our day centres ’ . |
| 8 | One SSD , for example , had great difficulty in persuading a district council housing department to offer accommodation to a single mother who had become disabled but who wished to leave hospital and look after her daughter . |
| 9 | It was important for the future of the English republic that Frost was succeeded not by his eldest son , who had become assistant secretary and treasurer for the council 's contingencies , but by the candidate of Oliver St John and Oliver Cromwell , John Thurloe [ qq.v . ] . |
| 10 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 11 | He recognized the voice of Beverley 's servant , Parry , who had become anxious about Giles 's safety , and had set out to search for him . |
| 12 | Finally , we 've wrought just so many major alterations to the basic ZZAP ! structure that we felt gamesplayers who had become tired of the old formula ought to get the chance to see for themselves just what improvements have been made . |
| 13 | On 20 April 1964 Lonsdale was exchanged for a British businessman , Greville Wynne , who had become involved in espionage and been imprisoned in Russia . |
| 14 | In the 1860s , the supply of cotton dried up because the Mexican cotton growers had started replacing North Americans , who had become involved in their civil war , as suppliers of cotton for England . |
| 15 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Before their first meeting , Nkrumah called upon Harold Macmillan , who had become prime Minister five months earlier . |
| 17 | Xenofon Zolotas , who had become Prime Minister of an all-party government after an inconclusive general election on Nov. 5 , 1989 [ see pp. 37050-51 ] , announced on Jan. 26 the calling of a further general election . |
| 18 | They could not easily accept a return to old party cries or the need to oppose men who had become close friends . |
| 19 | There was also a form of opposition to perestroika that stemmed from outdated patterns of thinking and the self-interest of those who had become used to living at the expense of others . |
| 20 | He castigated those who had become wealthy by exploiting their political standing for private gain . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | The founder was a man who had become interested in aviation during the thirties , spent the war in the South African Air Force and , on returning to civilian life , foresaw the opportunities that could be won with cheaply acquired and converted military aircraft . |
| 23 | The young Hugh Gaitskell , who had become aware of the dangers of fascism on his visit to Austria in the summer of 1933 and was greatly influenced by Dalton , summed up the attitude of this group by arguing that a general strike against all wars was ‘ an invitation to the fascist aggressors . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Very soon after the campaign of unspeakable suffering had commenced , ’ James Butterworth wrote in 1932 , ‘ those who had laboured long in building up a club saw the once-hooligan juniors , who had become stalwart seniors , whipped away as by magic … |
| 25 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 26 | Minna and Brenda are the two heroines in ‘ The Pirate ’ who had become fashionable shorthand reference for rural femininity . |
| 27 | The second deals with the relation of Russia to the rest of the world , and includes the existence of an elite of Russians , exiled by the czar , who had become sophisticated socialists , as well as those aspects of foreign policy which played into the hands of the revolutionaries . |
| 28 | To stage the Exhibition , Prince Albert commissioned the services of Sir Joseph Paxton , who had become head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire , and had acquired a reputation for his effective building of large glass houses . |
| 29 | However they were always odd cars to the crews and the maintenance men , who had become accustomed to English Electric equipment , and were not particularly well-liked . |
| 30 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |