Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] become a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was dressed in a red coat , cut-away from chest to knee , with long yellow lapels that became a cape collar . |
| 2 | Charles acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and became a patron of Rubens and van Dyck as well as of Inigo Jones , who was commissioned not only to build palaces but to write and produce masques at Court . |
| 3 | To them I was just another recruit , and if I did well , got myself through the first six months and became a legionnaire , then I would matter to them because I would be part of their system . |
| 4 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | When John left Cottesmore School in Nottingham in 1941 , at the age of fourteen , his ambition was to follow in his father 's footsteps and become a motor mechanic . |
| 6 | It was at university under the tutelage of Maurice Cowling and others that he changed his political views and became a believer in Friedmanite economics . |
| 7 | For Marx on the other hand the difference is more material : the division of labour between branches exists on the basis of the interchange of products as commodities , whereas within the enterprise the specialised worker produces no commodities — ‘ It is only the common product of all the specialised workers that becomes a commodity ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 8 | The fairs could last for up to forty-nine days and became a meeting place for merchants from Spain , Italy , England , the Low Countries and other parts of France . |
| 9 | Coming down off the mountains , Matthiessen first finds that he loses the calm and joy of the transfiguration of his perception in high places and becomes a prey to irritation and a sense of desolation and purposelessness — his past experience apparently rendered hallucinatory in the face of his present sense of failure . |
| 10 | Molyneux built on Richmond 's earlier successes and became a figure of public renown . |
| 11 | Shiva was astonished to find that Rufus had in fact finished his studies and become a doctor . |
| 12 | When I left college , I continued my studies and became a doctor . |
| 13 | He was interested in aeroplanes and became an aviator . |
| 14 | She could have just locked the door , walked down the back stairs and become a memory . ’ |
| 15 | One of the important variables in such patterns is the degree to which the dowry assets remain exclusively the property of the bride herself and of her future heirs or become a part of the pool of household property which can be used by the husband . |
| 16 | To cross them was to break tradition , to sever one 's links and become an outsider . |
| 17 | In the evening , lit by parchment-shaded and gold-pillared lamps , the main salon lost its cold angularities and became a place to linger in . |
| 18 | In the beargardens that became a feature of almost every major kite flying meeting , a parade of well-dressed bears took on the role of chairbears , observing in silence the antics of crazy ‘ humes ’ as they lounged in their designer suits , awaiting the call to elevation . |
| 19 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 20 | Macijauskas himself is from the second city and former capital , Kaunas which is where he worked with the local branch of the society , won some competitions and became a newspaper reporter . |