Example sentences of "[pron] become the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 2 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 3 | If Shadows and would-be Shadows started behaving like members of a government , there 'd be a greater chance of them becoming the real thing . |
| 4 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 5 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 6 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 7 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 8 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 9 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 12 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My involvement with mountain rescue has led to my becoming the medical officer for the Mountain Rescue Committee dealing with England and Wales . |
| 15 | The first reigned during a period of complex political change , and presided over the difficult transition from the Roman Republic and the civil wars which brought it to an end to the monarchical system which became the Roman empire ; Nero 's reign marks the abandonment of the pattern which had been established by Augustus . |
| 16 | When the Boards were abolished in 1902 , the Women 's Local Government Society fought to have women elected to the County and Borough Councils , which became the new Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 17 | The southern group , which became the Southern Railway , included the L&SWR . |
| 18 | The 46th Regiment of Foot ( which became The 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry ) while engaged in the American War of Independence in 1777 , defeated an American force at Brandywine . |
| 19 | This early text already exemplifies the pattern of narrative passages and meditations upon them which became the regular mode of presentation in the fuller texts of 1805 and 1850 ; and the sophisticated author is only too aware of the division within himself which the method leads to : |
| 20 | By now a confirmed Trotskyist , James had also published several more books : In 1936 , ‘ Minty Alley ’ — a short novel on Trinidad , and then ; in 1937 , ‘ World Revolution ’ — which became the virtual Bible of Trotskyism . |
| 21 | His publications included Electric Light Installations ( 1886 ) , which became the standard work on the subject . |
| 22 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 23 | Kings who showed independence risked the fate of Pleistoanax , exiled in 446 — most unfairly , because Sparta ratified his provisional settlement with Athens , which became the Thirty Years Peace ( p. 46 ) . |
| 24 | Wills , which became the Imperial Tobacco Company , were descended from Anthony Wills who was born c. 1510 and owned property in Cornwall . |
| 25 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 26 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 27 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 28 | Even without exploiting it himself , he was apt to give the impression of that ‘ aristocratic ’ radio sneer which became the audible signature of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 29 | Sandys bowed to the political and industrial pressures generated by the Air Lobby and accepted the validity of the Air Staff requirement for GOR 339 , which became the ill-starred TSR 2 . |
| 30 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |