Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there was an exodus of thousands of Catholics to the south , where they became the most implacable opponents of the Communist north . |
| 2 | The son of a miner , Ronald Eyre was born at Mapplewell , Yorks , on April 13 1929 and educated at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Wakefield , and University College , Oxford , where he became the secretary of OUDS . |
| 3 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 4 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 5 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 6 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 7 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 8 | In Toronto on that homeward trip I first met Ernest L. Bushnell who had come into radio as one-quarter of a male quartet and who rose in the ranks of Canadian radio until he became the top executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation some years later . |
| 9 | Put simply , if it becomes the custom or the practice of a group of workers to do a job in a certain way and management makes no objection , then that method of working can be cited as a precedent in disputes . |
| 10 | Indeed reason would infer the existence of a wall , especially if the town became a civitas capital , and even more so if it became the capital of the late-formed province of Valentia . |
| 11 | But he vowed that even if he becomes the world 's richest sportsman , he will stay firmly clear of the bright lights that cost Tyson his freedom . |
| 12 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 13 | When the housing market collapsed , it appears that this property was affected because it became the subject of a forced sale . |
| 14 | In the case of Gothic architecture , the pointed arch was evolved because it became the key to constructing buildings which were then desirable . |
| 15 | Shortly after I became the Member for Worcester , the Queen Mother visited my constituency . |
| 16 | Towards the end of my sojourn at Kinloss , and after I became the assistant to the chief ground instructor under a squadron leader , I was also seconded to the engineering wing . |
| 17 | In the book the strength of the climax is that his moral attitudes make it necessary for him to reach the girl before she becomes the wife of someone else , which he does . |
| 18 | This was Inez in her early twenties , before she became the mother of Matthew 's children . |
| 19 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 20 | Harrison Ford stars as a former CIA man lured back into the fray after he becomes the target of the IRA . |
| 21 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |
| 22 | He was banned five times between 1964 and 1967 but his flexibility as a player was such that Bremner played as a winger and a sweeper for Leeds United before he became the club 's midfield dynamo . |
| 23 | The fortress commanded a view up the narrow valley of the Yucay River , as it wound past the ancient Inca town tucked in the crux of the mountains , before it became the turbulent Urubamba . |
| 24 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 25 | Before it became the populist anti-communist crusade of October 1947 or the parliamentary party of 1951 , the RPF was a brotherhood of ex-resisters and Free Frenchmen bound to one another and to de Gaulle by nostalgia . |
| 26 | The US Army may have dumped radioactive waste from nuclear bomb programmes in Love Canal , many years before it became the site for disposal of toxic chemicals by a commercial concern . |
| 27 | When I become the mayor of |
| 28 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 29 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 30 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |