Example sentences of "[noun] become [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the twentieth century more houses became tied with the decline of the landlord — tenant system in farming and its replacement by owner-occupation , and since the Second World War the chronic shortage of housing in rural areas has increased the importance of tied cottages still further . |
| 2 | Via Rostovtsev , Pozen 's conservative opinions became enshrined in the Main Committee 's unimaginative April programme . |
| 3 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 4 | His ghost became known as the Bad Lord , it being a noxious POLTERGEIST who irritates the family 's descendants more as time goes by — roaring in the cellars , splintering furniture and frightening maidservants . |
| 5 | The effects of the world economic slump were traumatic but one event which occurred in 1930 , was the commencement by France , of the building of a line of concrete defences along its border with Germany — that line of defences became known as the Maginot Line . |
| 6 | The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T . |
| 7 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 8 | Through a sophisticated structural analysis of features ranging from window position to door latch , Glassie-reconstructs a major change taking place around the late 1870s ( 1975 : 182 , 185 ) , in which chimneys and central halls became incorporated into the main building , and a new concern with symmetry appears , along with a homogenization of the exterior around a more conspicuously ordered façade . |
| 9 | This anomaly became known as the West Lothian question as it was continuously raised by Tam Dalyell , the Labour Member for West Lothian and a firm opponent of devolution . |
| 10 | When the power of the higher civil service declined after 1942 and the state administration became absorbed into the party structure , the running of the economy was handed over to the most powerful monopolists . |
| 11 | Their association became known as the Royal Mines Copper ( as distinct from the old Company or Society of Mines Royal ) . |
| 12 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |
| 13 | Established as the West Midlands Training College in 1963 , the institution became known as the West Midlands College of Higher Education with the establishment of a range of diversified degree courses . |
| 14 | Those troubles — referred to as the ‘ Irish Rebellion ’ — were overcome only by violent methods used by the ‘ Black and Tans ’ , plus some restless ex-soldiers , known as the ‘ Auxiliaries ’ , and when the facts of those violent methods became known to the British public , they were declared unacceptable — despite the outrages which Sinn Fein had instituted in London and the bombings in Belfast . |
| 15 | This result became known by the maxim : " A black hole has no hair . " |
| 16 | Like many radicals Cary became disillusioned with the Rump Parliament and welcomed its fall . |
| 17 | It was at this point that Napoleon became entangled in the feuds of the court factions ; his exploitation of these feuds after the tumult of Aranjuez gave a confused start to a national revolution . |
| 18 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 19 | Another view of modern scholars is that the New Testament Devil and his demons became augmented by the fathers of the patristic era and were made even more devilish , as it were , than they are in the Bible . |
| 20 | Ultimately the hind legs became strengthened at the expense of the front ones . |
| 21 | Murtach shot his father a warning glance , but the big man merely shrugged , his deep eyes becoming shrouded by the overhanging brows . |
| 22 | Balanced , fair and thorough negotiation is the key to a smooth running contract and all the relevant contractual terms and mechanisms should be considered and agreed before the parties become committed to the contract . |
| 23 | That is , all words sharing the same initial sound characteristics become activated in the system . |
| 24 | In the vision of the military critic writing ex post , the uncertain temper of the men of Britain 's Eighth Army after years of consistent defeat becomes obliterated behind the imposing shapes of tactical and material considerations . |
| 25 | In this model it is proposed that thinning of the lithosphere and its partial replacement by hot asthenosphere might allow convective upwelling to become established below the zone of extension . |
| 26 | As the waters were considered to be particularly efficacious in spring , the first Sunday in May became known around the Calder Valley as Spaw Sunday . |
| 27 | Debate in Curry Rivel became heated on the issue ; so much so , that a committee of villagers , including Benjamin James Titford himself , was appointed to decide what to do . |
| 28 | Firstly , companies became larger and larger as wealth became concentrated in the hands of a small number of firms . |
| 29 | However Mr Earnshaw insisted , and little by little the boy became accepted by the family . |
| 30 | In June 1984 , a scant four weeks after the jumbo jet statistic became known in the world 's aviation lobbies , the president made a particularly memorable speech . |