Example sentences of "[noun prp] become the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 . |
| 2 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 3 | Closer to home , BARNEY from NEW ORDER and long-time girlfriend SARAH became the proud parents of a very healthy baby boy called Dylan . |
| 4 | The Assumption in Moscow became the new prototype and was copied again and again all over Russia for many years as the orthodox pattern for such great churches . |
| 5 | In East Anglia , Colchester became the Roman Army Headquarters and later an important civil town . |
| 6 | OLD Kingstonians and Brooklands became the final qualifiers for next year 's Pizza Express National League , winning their play-off matches yesterday to earn places in the Second Division . |
| 7 | ON THIS DAY : In 1154 , Nicolas Breakspear became the only English Pope , as Adrian IV . |
| 8 | But if Her Majesty is putting her hopes in Prince William becoming the perfect monarch , I feel she is being rather over-optimistic . |
| 9 | Yet this was also the period during which the United States became the main supplier of the hugely increasing need for raw cotton . |
| 10 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 11 | Bruges became the northern centre of the Hanseatic League and other important commercial centres grew up in Ghent , Antwerp , Louvain and Ypres . |
| 12 | The establishment of diplomatic relations between Singapore and China in October 1990 [ see p. 37780 ] meant that Brunei became the sole ASEAN member without formal diplomatic ties with China . |
| 13 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 14 | A prominent underworld figure popular in Belgrade and the head of the fan club for the Red Star football team , Arkan became the Serbian supremo in eastern Croatia during one of the most brutal campaigns of the Croatian war . |
| 15 | To John Kemp Seraphina becomes the beloved ideal as well as the victim of persecution whom he vows to rescue . |
| 16 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 17 | Accordingly , under the Djibouti Agreement Mr. Mahdi became the interim President and on 6 August 1991 he appointed Mr. Qalib as his prime minister , apparently , in the absence of a nomination by the S.N.M. Mr. Qalib then appointed ministers to serve under him . |
| 18 | When Edward I , Langshanks , waged his wars against Wales and Scotland , his armies were paid for by loans from Luccan bankers and when he reneged on the loans , the bankers went bust and Florence became the international financier of the day . |
| 19 | Sumner became the leading English exponent of the technique of sgraffito , a method of decorating walls by incising designs on coloured plaster ; he decorated eleven churches and several private houses in this way . |
| 20 | Peterborough became the great railway and engineering centre that Stamford might well have become . |
| 21 | Ross became the unofficial leader of the whole trade , working hard to ensure survival . |
| 22 | Sir Anthony became the new chairman on 1 July , succeeding John Maltby , whose term of office ended on 30 June . |
| 23 | Frank became the new chairman and we believe that in due course , it 's gon na generate substantial profits . |
| 24 | James F Hudson became the new Field Officer and also editor of the BDN , which had been edited by an editorial board since Frame 's death , and Mrs C. Laidlow ( Kitty ) , a Lady Welfare Officer at Carlisle , was put in charge of the new office as administrative Secretary . |
| 25 | Remaisnil became the staged version of her perfected life , the culmination of the myth which was such a potent force for customer and company alike and without which the art could not flourish . |
| 26 | An arrangement was signed with the Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Motel Association by which the HCIMA became the sole UK distributor of the EI 's comprehensive range of management development resourses . |
| 27 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 28 | Establishing an operationally independent Bank of England to become the Central Bank of the UK , to ensure disciplined economic management , to end political manipulation of the economy and to form the rock upon which a long-term anti-inflationary strategy can be built . |
| 29 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 30 | The corruption and reform of the House of Commons became the central issue dividing the supporters from the opponents of the existing political system . |