Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] become [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This attractive black-white mammal widely liked by people and already become a symbol of conservation efforts … |
| 32 | One week previously an independent member of the Országgyüles , Eva Balla , had joined the party and thus became the party 's first representative in parliament . |
| 33 | Chaucer 's Reeve , for Olson , is revealed as a judge who will not temper strict retributive justice with mercy , and thus becomes a character who is liable to strict justice himself . |
| 34 | The opening thrust of ‘ The Headmaster Ritual ’ brought immediate impact and soon became a favourite with all who had bad experiences at school ( which is everyone ) . |
| 35 | Under William and his son — and successor — Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817–1911 ) , Kew began to acquire facilities for studying exotic plants and soon became a centre of international importance . |
| 36 | In 1848 he became MRCS ( and soon became a fellow ‘ by examination ’ ) and in the following year was awarded the college 's triennial prize for an essay on the nerves of the eye . |
| 37 | Thomas Cook began as a tour operator organizing and selling his own tours and soon became an agent as well , selling all kinds of travel on behalf of other suppliers , particularly the railway companies . |
| 38 | In 1898 the twenty-nine-year-old Alice met and soon became the mistress of the fifty-six-year-old Albert Edward , Prince of Wales . |
| 39 | Northampton began life as a fortified position in the early tenth century — it is first recorded as a name in the year 917 — and soon became the shire town . |
| 40 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 41 | Third World governments need to help the submerged economy emerge and gradually become a part of the official one . |
| 42 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 43 | Even in church music its purest type reached ultimate perfection in the work of Palestrina and Victoria , and thereafter became the idiom of epigones . |
| 44 | Intrigued , she made a series of forays on horseback into the trackless tribal areas of northern Albania , and quickly became the champion of the mountaineers , whose lands were coveted by neighbouring nations . |
| 45 | While in Rome in 1845 Mary met George Henry Sumner , son of Charles Richard Sumner [ q.v. ] , bishop of Winchester , who was to be ordained and later become the bishop of Guildford . |
| 46 | Arthur Ramsey gave Michael a book by a scientist ( Romanes ) who was once an atheist and later became a believer . |
| 47 | The Lombard king was exiled to Neustria , and later became a monk in the Abbey of Corbey where he died in his old age . |
| 48 | She became chairman of the orchestra and later became a member and chairman of the Keswick Music Society . |
| 49 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 50 | He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire . |
| 51 | He had been Head of Geography from 1919 until his retirement in 1953 , and later became a Governor , representing the staff of the School . |
| 52 | To cut a long story short , the church was granted special provision to use the building twelve months before it became generally available ; I was elected to the executive and later became a trustee of the community centre . |
| 53 | He worked among the poor of the Shankill Road , and later became an evangelist in America . |
| 54 | Stephen Clark enjoyed his 8.2 overs with a 5–42 return and later became the batting hero . |
| 55 | The Countess d'Agoult , better known perhaps under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern , presided over a republican circle in her fine house on the Champs Elysées , while Juliette Adam , married to a rich banker and later to become the mistress of the republican politician Gambetta , maintained an equally republican salon in her ( less grand ) apartment on the Boulevard Poissonière . |
| 56 | A motor vehicle which is being towed by another motor vehicle both remains a motor vehicle and also becomes a trailer . |
| 57 | The LCD display window to the left of the front panel and the LED readout in the centre are clear enough : the LCD shows patch name , effects in use and other essential programming information ; the LED tells the patch number and also becomes the tuning meter when the Alpha 's internal bass/guitar tuner patch is selected . |
| 58 | In this year , he was appointed President of the English Circle of Books Across the Sea , and also became a member of the Apollo Society which was dedicated to reviving " the neglected art of reading poetry and to show that poetry and music can be regarded as complementary " . |
| 59 | In his last years he featured in a number of important legal cases , and also became the subject of a famous caricature drawn on a tallage roll of 1233 . |
| 60 | It was a convenient gathering point for all non-trainload traffic to and from South Wales , and also became the gateway to south-west England with feeder services to Bristol , Exeter , Plymouth and so on . |